Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production, the same chemical used in 1995's Oklahoma City Bombing," says Siobhan Morris at Newstalk 1010.

A cargo ship packed with potentially explosive ammonium nitrate remains adrift in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Maltese-registered Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of the chemical ...

United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese marked one year since the horrific explosion at ... nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port warehouse.

A potential explosion aboard a damaged ... said that while there are plenty of concerns about ammonium nitrate because of its ...

The likely culprit behind this explosion was their anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate. West Fertilizer had 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia and Waco Assistant Fire Chief Don Yeager told AFP ...

"Over the years, over 40 or so major explosions of ammonium nitrate. This is just the latest one. So it's really a major concern; even though the likelihood is low, the outcome is catastrophic.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese judge leading an investigation into the huge 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned ... hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse ...