Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston · Aired Sep 10, 2026
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Fertilizer bombs lack the potency to cause the level of structural damage seen in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bombs are plenty capable of the damage seen at the Murrah building. Investigators used the crater the truck bomb left, nearly 7 feet deep and 28 feet wide right next to the building, to calculate the device held roughly 2,000 to 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which lines up with the destruction it caused.
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Is it true that Fertilizer bombs lack the potency to cause the level of structural damage seen in the Oklahoma City bombing?
No, not as stated. Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bombs are plenty capable of the damage seen at the Murrah building. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston, aired Sep 10, 2026, at 2:19:06. The supporting source is memorialmuseum.com, linked below.
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