Big Bang in Beruit

[Anomalocaris]

ammonium nitrate is considered to have an “effectiveness factor” of 0.42, which means explosion of ton of ammonium nitrate is equal in destructive potential to 0.42 tons of TNT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

So this detonation is on the order of a 1 kiloton tactical nuclear weapon.

Editorializing unnecessary.

Nukes are rated in kilotons of TNT.

Simply saying the explosion is equivalent to 1 KT conveys the message without the doom and gloom of invoking nuclear weapons...

When better to invoke the doom and gloom of nuclear weapon than when the doom and gloom of an explosion on The scale of a nuclear weapon visits the middle of a major city?