On June 2, 2006, the U.S. Pentagon plans to detonate 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, which would make it the largest open-air, non-nuclear blast ever seen at the Nevada Test Site. The goal of the test is to aid in designing weapons that can reach weapons of mass destructions buried deep under [...]

Did you know that TheExplodingWhale.com is home to (as far as we know) the world’s only organized discussion of the various ways in which whales explode? We call it our Taxonomy of Cetacean Detonation. Now, in case you’re not really sure what that means, here’s a translation:

Taxonomy - Division into ordered groups or categories.
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Scottish officials had planned to use dynamite to blow up the 47 ft. carcass of a dead sperm whale but later decided that the 30-ton leviathan would be hauled away and dumped in a local “rubbish tip” (disposal site). Prior to the whale’s death, it had become entangled in the anchor rope of a 19 [...]