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They Told Them It Was Just A Fire - 29 Women Killed in Explosion
They Told Them It Was Just A Fire - 29 Women Killed in Explosion
They believed it was a manageable fire and stood outside watching the building burn - until a pressure wave hurled bodies 400 feet and rattled windows 11 miles away. The Army had reclassified the material as Class Seven explosives 14 weeks earlier, but that order never reached the plant; how did five tons of processed magnesium and 56,322 tripflares become a bomb without anyone knowing?
In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events on a February Wednesday when Building M-132 vanished, the safety gaps at a remote Thiokol…
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