What is ammonium nitrate, the chemical in the deadly Beirut explosion?
Then there are additional regulations from DHS, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, which applies to hundreds of chemicals that could be misused under the context of terrorism, he said.
“If you’re doing mining of any type, you’re going to be using this material to make your explosive,” she said. The chemical has been involved both in terror attacks and in accidents leading to hundreds of deaths in the past.In 1947, at least 581 people were killed when more than 2,000 tons of the chemical exploded on a cargo ship that had docked at a port in Texas City, Texas.
Timothy McVeigh used two tons of ammonium nitrate to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, leading to the deaths of 168 people. It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries.
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