Stacker compiled information from historical archives, accident reports, and country records to find some of the most deadly nonnuclear accidental explosions recorded in history.

The Texas fertilizer disaster turned a routine fire call into one of the deadliest industrial explosions in U.S. history ...

Only one of the 20 deadliest fires and explosions in U.S. history happened since 1947 – and it was caused by a group of radical hijackers who sent two planes into the World Trade Center towers ...

Stacker compiled information from historical archives, accident reports, and country records to find some of the most deadly nonnuclear accidental explosions recorded in history.

Only one of the 20 deadliest fires and explosions in U.S. history happened since 1947 – and it was caused by a group of radical hijackers who sent two planes into the World Trade Center towers ...

The deadliest accidental explosions ever recorded Bystanders watch fire fighters trying to put out a fire after the explosion of a pipeline.