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It lit up again. and then we heard the loud boom. it looked like a sunset, it was so bright. >> given how big those explosions were in october 2012, it is amazing nobody was hurt in those exuld sev of the employees of the company got indicted. and then the company went bankrupt. the stuff is still sitting out there in a field. and nobody knows what to do with it. they started stuffing it in bunkers. nobody exactly knows what's going to be the ultimate dispensation of this stuff. look at the site. and this stuff can't just be left to rot. because when it rots, it tends to explode. you can't jus...

They saw it. it turns out what this company had created, in this little corner of northwest louisiana, what they had done there was unbeknownst to anybody. they had created the nation's largest stockpile out in the open, rotting in a field, the nation's largest stockpile of unstable toxic explosive artillery propellant. 18 million pounds of it. at that site. and then seven of the employees of the company got indicted. and then the company went bankrupt. the stuff is still sitting out there in a field. and nobody knows what to do with it. they started stuffing it in bunkers. nobody exactly know...

Explosions were in october 2012, it is amazing nobody was hurt in those explosions. but there was an investigation of what had blown up, what had gone wrong at camp minden. that investigation turned up something that really nobody could have imagined there before they saw it. it turns out what this company had created, in this little corner of northwest louisiana, what they had done there was unbeknownst to anybody. they had created the nation's largest stockpile out in the open, rotting in a field, the nation's largest stockpile of unstable toxic explosive artillery propellant. 18 million pou...

Opposite of that. which is a place called minden, louisiana. camp minden is a state-owned site in northwestern louisiana where for years, contractors have done various kinds of work for the u.s. military. for years at that site a company called explo -- that's foreshadowing -- a company called explo took in huge quantities of m-6 artillery propellants from the government. they resold it mostly to the mining industry, which obviously has a need for explosives from time to time. but at some point in the last few years, the inflow and outflow of this artillery propellant in northwestern louisiana...