https://nationalsecurityforum.org Forum for discussing national security issues. Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:01:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://nationalsecurityforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-cropped-heder-2-32x32.png https://nationalsecurityforum.org 32 32 https://nationalsecurityforum.org/2020/08/18/commentary-beirut-and-beyond/ https://nationalsecurityforum.org/2020/08/18/commentary-beirut-and-beyond/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:32:33 +0000 https://nationalsecurityforum.org/?p=6903 The explosion in a warehouse in the port of Beirut occurred barely half a mile from the densely populated center of the city with its many affluent residential and office neighborhoods. For 6 years, the warehouse stored the highly combustible compound “ammonium nitrate.

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