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Beirut Explosion is Third Biggest After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, British Scientist Says

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Beirut’s mayor has already likened the tragic incident with the notorious bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which happened almost exactly 75 years ago.
The harrowing devastation and horrendous „mushroom cloud“ that appeared above Beirut’s port seconds before the blast wave ripped through the nearby districts could not but spark comparisons with the only two times in history when nuclear weapons were used against cities – Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. While Lebanese officials‘ preliminary conclusions point to ammonium nitrate as the likely explosive that detonated on 4 August in the Port of Beirut, the similarity of the historic explosions to the one that happened yesterday can be explained, Christopher Busby, an expert on the health effects of ionising radiation and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, believes.

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