A helicopter puts out a fire at the scene of an explosion at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut on August 4, 2020.Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear and conventional weapons expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California, estimated the yield to be "between 200 and 500 tons, looking at blast damage, the shockwave, seismic signals and the size of the crater.
The governor of Beirut compared Tuesday's horrific explosion to the atomic bombs that devastated the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.A general view shows the damage at the site of Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 5, 2020With an explosive yield of a few hundred tons, the Beirut blast would have been dozens of times less powerful than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima, which had an estimated yield of about 15 kilotons.
Reports say that Lebanese officials and maritime experts knew that a ticking time bomb had been unloaded at the port in Beirut, but authorities appeared to disregard years of warnings.
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