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When Mail Killed: The Untold 1971 Thiokol Plant Blast
When Mail Killed: The Untold 1971 Thiokol Plant Blast
Fear that the everyday will suddenly become lethal: on February 3, 1971, a fireball rolled toward a Vietnam veteran standing 300 yards from a concrete plant after five tons of material and 56,322 assembled flares detonated - but the Army had reclassified those flares as explosive ordnance 97 days earlier and the order never arrived at the plant. How did a single undelivered form turn a routine factory into a deathtrap?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of facts that led to the Camden County catastrophe, the industrial processes…
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