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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

Tonnes: On April 4, 1925, and May 3, 1925, two carloads, each containing 220 barrels of ammonium nitrate , were dispatched from Muscle Shoals, Alabama , and caught fire in transportation. 240 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in sacks exploded after being hit by a shell from a nearby fire in a munitions train. Date:October 2, 2003.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

The first, Operation Desert Storm of 1991 , saw the transportation of near a national strategic reserve to a battlefield thus ensuring a 100-hour war was possible; a war where logistics offered little tactical constraint. 2] This transformation can be seen particularly starkly between two defining military campaigns.