Thirty tonnes of explosive chemicals go missing in the Mojave Desert
A 30-tonne rail shipment of an explosive chemical vanished en route from Wyoming to California last month, officials say. A train loaded with 60,00...
A 30-tonne rail shipment of an explosive chemical vanished en route from Wyoming to California last month, officials say. A train loaded with 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate departed Cheyenne, Wyoming, on 12 April, explosives company Dyno Nobel told KQED. When it arrived at a stop in the Mojave Desert two weeks later, the car was empty. The company notified authorities in a 10 May report to the federal National Response Center, KQED reported. The mysterious disappearance of ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, has since prompted four separate investigations.