The Halifax Explosion – When a City Was Destroyed in Seconds

On December 6, 1917, a ship carrying wartime explosives caught fire in Halifax Harbor. Twenty minutes later, it exploded—creating the largest non-nuclear blast in human history.

Entire neighborhoods were flattened. Thousands were injured or killed. The shockwave shattered windows 50 miles away.

And the next day, a blizzard buried what was left.

This is the forgotten true story of the Halifax Explosion, one of the deadliest disasters of the 20th century—told in under 3 minutes.

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