# What really happened at Port Chicago?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 12, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-happened-at-port-chicago/40834 "2000-11-12T00:36:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-happened-at-port-chicago/40834/21 "2024-07-18T22:13:11Z")

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Zombie from 2000 would explain why nobody mentioned the Beirut harbour explosion.

> A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 [kilotons of TNT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent)) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures

Some pretty spectacular videos of the damage such an explosion can create.

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