December 6, 2017 - At 9:04 AM, 100 years ago today, the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosion in history went off, one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The S.S. Mont-Blanc, carrying nearly three thousand tons of explosive materials (three kilotons in nuke-speak) for "the …

CNN quotes former US Veep Dick Cheney defending the unimaginable trillion-dollar deficit left behind by his administration - much of which was spent on the unwinnable war in Iraq - by saying ""All of these things required us to spend money that we had not originally planned to spend, or …