From natural chaos to wartime blasts and industrial disasters, these are history's most powerful non-nuclear explosions measured by force, impact, devastation.

The explosion that devastated large parts of Beirut and killed more than 190 people was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb is designed to penetrate underground bunkers and buildings.

Energy released by the August explosion in Beirut was enough to power over 100 homes for a year; it was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts to date.

Beirut explosion was one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts in human history British engineering experts believe the explosion was the equivalent of 1,000 to 1,500 tonnes of TNT.

Seven B-2 stealth aircraft dropped a total of 14 GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear sites last weekend.

Pro-Kremlin sources have claimed that Russia employed a destructive "vacuum" bomb on a town in eastern Ukraine.

Israel needs a 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, but only the US has one. Such a powerful weapon — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US ...

The blast, which is considered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions to have been recorded, damaged 77,000 apartments and caused an estimated $3.8-4.6bn in material damage.

Travel Europe Germany Island hit by 'biggest non-nuclear, man-made explosion' now a car-free holiday hotspot Heligoland is tiny German island in the North Sea that has a big seal colony, a huge ...