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One of Largest Non-Nuclear Explosions in History was ANFO-esque.
One of my mid-1960's era Time Life Nature and Science Series Books notes that one of the largest - if not the largest - non-nuclear explosions in history was done with 1,375 tonnes of an ammonium nitrate-based explosive called Nitramex2h, on April 5, 1958, to destroy an underwater mountain shipping hazard called “Ripple Rock” in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada.
Wiked Pee Pee Ah states that “Nitramex and Nitramon Explosives are compositions of various chemical compounds. They are explosives based on ammonium nitrate and other ingredients such as paraffin wax, aluminum and dinitrotoluene. The binding of these additional ingredients creates a more stable explosive. Nitramex and Nitramon have been replaced by more modern high explosives based on ammonium nitrate such as ANFO.”
R.C.
P.s., In getting the above information, I learned that (a) It could get as shallow as 9 feet at low tide; and (b) there were uniistened-to-objections about how it would be smarter to use Ripple Rock's two mountain tops as a bridge bases. At a minimum, It sure seems it would have been a lot cheaper to simply have put two steel towers with lights on those tops; eh? But governments' have never been known to be logically econdomical with OUR money, now, have they?
CONCLUSION: Seems most likely it was a modern "Bread and Circuses" approach; particularly since it was the first TV "Event" broadcast live across all of Canada.
RC