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.

The force of the Halifax explosion was so large that it remained one of the largest human-made explosions ever until the United States developed atomic weaponry in 1945.

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.

The US military dropped America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials.

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 ...