THIS HAPPENED BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB! The crew knew this ship was a 20-minute countdown to disaster. It caused the world's largest man made explosion ever recorded. The shockwave shattered glass 50 miles away and created a tsunami that swept the harbor. The final destruction was complete, flattening every structure within a half-mile radius. #HistoryFacts #Shocking #Disaster #HalifaxExplosion #WWI#Tsunami #HalifaxExplosion #LargestExplosion #FlyingAnchor | Ashwood Archive

Movies For Us! on Instagram: "One of the most haunting scenes ever put on film — and one of the most realistic depictions of an atomic explosion in movie history. No soundtrack during the explosion makes it eerily realistic — nuclear blasts are silent before the shockwave hits. Director James Cameron worked with actual scientific research to make the blast’s behavior as accurate as possible: heat flash, shockwave, instant vaporization, and the “nuclear wind” that follows. Many nuclear experts at