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In Germany we find bombs all the time from WW2. They have a specialized team for disarming these. And in the case they can't disarm they blow it up after evac
by mseidl 9y ago
In Germany we find bombs all the time from WW2. They have a specialized team for disarming these. And in the case they can't disarm they blow it up after evacuating from a certain distance.
- kakwa_ 9y agoI used to live in Brest which was also heavily bombed during WW2, and it's the same. Every time they dig to start a new building, they find some exploded bombs. And each time, it's an evacuation of a lot of people in the city center to deal with it (easily a few hundred meters which in a city center means a few thousands people). However, leftover bombs from WWII are a bit different. They tend to be bigger, hundreds of kilograms where the "typical" shell you find in old WWI battlefields are less than 10 kilograms. Also the problematic is a little different since on one side, it's a medium to big city, on the other it's mostly the countryside.
- buckminster 9y ago> I used to live in Brest which was also heavily bombed during WW2 Birmingham is the same. There was a WWII bomb found last year right by two major roads where they cross a railway line. Travel into the city centre was completely stuffed up for two days. I felt the controlled explosion three miles away.