• White Explosion (‹See Tfd›Russian: Белый взрыв) is a 1969 Soviet historical action war film directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. The film takes place in...
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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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    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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    start of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict in October 2023. The first wave of explosions targeted pagers, and occurred on 17 September, around 15:30 EEST, killing...
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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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    2020-03-26. "The Explosion's final record due out in 2012". Punknews.org. Retrieved 2012-04-11. "The Explosion, Title Fight, White Wives to open Bouncing...
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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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Nyonoksa The Nyonoksa radiation accident, Arkhangelsk explosion or Nyonoksa explosion (‹See Tfd›Russian: Инцидент в Нёноксе, romanized: Intsident v Nyonokse)...
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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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Vysotsky and directed three movies starring him – Vertical (1967), White Explosion (1969) and The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), one of the cult...
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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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  • that Warner, a Nashville resident, was the bomber and acted alone. The explosion was caused by a car bomb carried in a Thor Motor Coach Chateau RV that...
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