Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a ...

The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly volatile chemical, detonated. The stockpile had been left for years ...

A Russia-linked ship carrying 20,000 tons of explosives has reportedly discharged part of its load before returning to the U.K. Ruby, a Malta-flagged cargo ship dubbed a "floating bomb," set off from ...

Flames and thick orange smoke rose over the Nevinnomyssk Azot chemical complex in Russia’s Stavropol Krai on the night of 3–4 ...

Not just ammonium nitrate, high-grade explosives were also used in the blast that occurred near the Red Fort in Delhi, an official from the Forensic Science Laboratory said. One of the explosive ...

An explosion on April 26 at Iran’s largest port, near the southern city of Bandar Abbas killed at least 70 people and injured more than 1,000, according to Iranian state media. The Islamic Republic ...

QUESTION: Can the ammonium nitrate in that train wreck explode like a bomb? ANSWER: You must be referring to the train-truck collision near Nelson in Buffalo County that occurred on May 17. According ...

Nearly two years after law passed, terror sting video highlights bomb threat. Oct. 22, 2009 — -- Almost two years after the passage of a law designed to make it ...