This is how reckless conspiracy theories start. Any big enough explosion forms a mushroom cloud because the shape is formed by water vapor in the atmosphere and nothing else. Likewise, there are videos where you can clearly see fireworks going off before the secondary blast.
Here’s a really close up video clearly showing fireworks going off inside the building, and pursuing the rest of the thread will show other obvious pops that are clearly fireworks, not high explosives or anything even remotely like rockets or bombs. https://t.co/Qc6FP7JMfz
But amazingly, even when shown this clear as day evidence, a lot of people refuse to accept that firework factories can and do blow up, and when they do, the results are both spectacular and devastating. A month ago this happened in Turkey. dw.com/en/turkey-fire…
Similar chemicals were responsible for the massive explosions in Tianjin in 2015 and left a crater where the factory housing them stood. The point is that not only nukes can cause massive explosions and people on social media insisting otherwise are wrong. independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
If what happened in #Beirut was a nuclear explosion, people would be dropping dead of radiation poisoning and the EMP would’ve fried their cameras and any electronics in the city almost instantly. There would be no videos being posted to social media like they are right now.
UPDATE: It looks like the explosion was caused by the fireworks igniting confiscated explosives stored close to them because who has time for hazmat safety, I guess?
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