TNT in the Metropolis: The Catastrophe That Zoned London

During the First World War, the British government desperately needed high explosives. In a staggering display of negligence, they authorized the purification of fifty tons of highly unstable TNT in a densely packed residential neighborhood in East London. In January 1917, the inevitable happened. A fire in the melt-pot room triggered an apocalyptic blast that instantly obliterated the Silvertow...