As I have worked with Ammonium Nitrate both as a fertilizer and an explosive since I was about 10 years old I found this forensic analysis of the Beirut Port explosion quite interesting.
The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
The more I read about the disaster the more ‘Inshallah’ (g*d willing) as the answer to all problems is the ultimate culprit. Every entity who could have done something kicked the can down the road to be ‘somebody else’s problem’
Nobody wanted to clean up the AN because that would mean taking responsibility for the confiscated material..