Episode 18: Texas City Disaster

Today @oldmananders0n, @aliceavizandum, and @donoteat01 test the limits of what we can say about fertilizer-derived explosives on the internet. here are the slides: https://youtu.be/AxA1vb6P2lU here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod vast majority of the info and images from the original report: http://www.local1259iaff.org/report.htm other images: john w. brown By Project Liberty Ship, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3264194 ammonium nitrate By Teravolt at en.wikipedia - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14151598 wilson b. keene By http://digital.lib.uh.edu/u?/p15195coll4,8, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834216 burned-out cars By University of Houston Digital Library - University of Houston Digital Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834231 oil refinery on fire By Chemical safety and hazards investigation board - http://www.csb.gov/assets/news/image/BP_PLANT_EXPLOSION-1_lowres2.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19192207