biggest, explosion, nuclear, world, ever, history, atomic, sedan, nevada, texas city, hindenburg, siberia, tsar, russia The explosion blasted away 12 million tons of desert dirt and created the largest man made crater on Earth. One of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history happened on April 16 1947, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate caught fire, exploded and subsequently triggered a series of smaller fires and explosions. The explosion that permanently grounded the airship “Hindenburg” is one of the most infamous events in history. On March 1st 1954, the United States triggered the largest thermonuclear detonation in its history. The only naturally occurring event on this list and possibly the most mysterious, the Tunguska Event occurred in June 1908 in an unpopulated forest of Siberia. The explosion seems to have been caused when a meteor hurtling towards Earth that exploded in midair before impact. The trading port city of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada was founded and become a crucial point for transporting troops, crucial supplies, and munitions across the Atlantic.
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