Ammonium nitrate is 1.35 less potent than TNT. So this was just over 2,000 tons of TNT blast. The first nuclear bomb ever dropped was 15,000 tons of TNT of forc

Ammonium nitrate is 1.35 less potent than TNT. So this was just over 2,000 tons of TNT blast. The first nuclear bomb ever dropped was 15,000 tons of TNT of force. So this was 13.3% of the force of what Hiroshima experienced. About 70,000 people died from Hiroshima. So 13.3% of Hiroshima force is still devastating. It's probably not going to be nearly as bad as 13.3% of 70,000 deaths because Hiroshima was more densely packed and there wasn't the electromagnetic pulse wave that vaporizes people and long lingering radiation associated with a nuclear bomb. ... Still what happened in Beirut is immensely devastating.