White Explosion (Russian: Белый взрыв) is a 1969 Soviet historical action war film directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. The film takes place in 1942, when...
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of severity is not possible; a 1994 study by historian Jay White of 130 large explosions suggested that they need to be ranked by an overall effect of...
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non-nuclear explosions on record. It was powerful enough to affect Earth's ionosphere. The blast was also the largest single-fired ammonium nitrate explosion in...
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On 12 August 2015, a series of explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, Northern China, killed 173 people, according to official reports, and injured...
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Halifax Explosion was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions. An extensive comparison of 130 major explosions by Halifax historian Jay White in...
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the colour is to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants.[citation needed] Some variants...
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matter in the white dwarf undergoes a runaway reaction, releasing enough energy (1×1044 J) to unbind the star in a supernova explosion. The Type Ia category...
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The Explosion is an American punk rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. On February 13, 2007, the band announced that they had left Virgin Records, and...
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A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed...
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Trinity (nuclear test) (redirect from First nuclear explosion)
critical mass was formed, producing a "fizzle"—a nuclear explosion many times smaller than a full explosion. The Thin Man design would therefore not work. Project...
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An underwater explosion (also known as an UNDEX) is a chemical or nuclear explosion that occurs under the surface of a body of water. While useful in...
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On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated...
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A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction. The driving reaction may...
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The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time approximately 538.8 million years ago in...
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Minor Scale (redirect from Minor Scale (explosion))
detonation of several thousand tons of conventional explosives to simulate the explosion of a small nuclear bomb. The purpose of the test was to evaluate the effect...
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On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States...
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Buncefield fire (redirect from 2005 Hemel Hempstead oil depot explosion)
at 06:08 and a firefighting effort began. The cause of the explosion was a fuel-air explosion in a vapour cloud of evaporated leaking petrol. The British...
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prevent the white hole's explosion as seen by distant observers, with the matter emitted from the singularity never able to escape the white hole's gravitational...
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The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London...
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The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives...
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artwork being changed from the familiar explosion background to a pixilated pattern of a red, yellow, and white explosion. In toy stores, two of the largest...
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Hydrothermal explosions occur when superheated water trapped below the surface of the Earth rapidly converts from liquid to steam, violently disrupting...
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Tunguska event (redirect from Great siberian explosion)
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now...
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Nyonoksa radiation accident (redirect from Nuclear explosion at a naval test facility in Russia 2019)
Nyonoksa The Nyonoksa radiation accident, Arkhangelsk explosion or Nyonoksa explosion (Russian: Инцидент в Нёноксе, romanized: Intsident v Nyonokse) occurred...
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The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killing 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for...
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Starfish Prime (redirect from Starfish explosion)
Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles (1,450 km) west-southwest of Hawaii. The explosion took place at an altitude of 250 miles (400 km), above a point 19 miles...
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Blasted Hell (1967) as Greta No and Yes (1967) as Lyusya Korablyova White Explosion (1969) as Vera Arsenova My good Dad (1970) as Valentina Ivanova One...
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was an American three-piece rock band from New York City, formed in 1991. The group consisted of Judah Bauer on guitar...
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Port Chicago disaster (redirect from The Port Chicago Explosion)
The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago...
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Supernova (redirect from Supernova explosion)
powerful and luminous explosion of a star. A supernova occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star, or when a white dwarf is triggered into...
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