Super close-up of Beirut explosion (warning: nightmare fuel)

I’ve had nightmares in the past of being near ground zero of a nuclear explosion. Well, this is what cell phone video of that would look like (minus some light).

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2700 tons of ammonium nitrate is roughly equivalent to 1.1 kilotons of TNT, or about 1/15th the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The cameraman here died (probably instantly from overpressure). The footage somehow survived.