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German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused
- buster 15y agoSomehow strange seeing this on the frontpage of HN (a mostly american(i suppose) tech community).. Old WWII bombss are found pretty often in Germany, and somehow it's non-news here (i think). The bomb in Koblenz was in the news for one day, but certainly not on page 1..
- DasIch 15y agoIndeed. I live in Germany and didnt' even hear about it although I follow the news quite closely. Then again it's really not that big of a deal as something like this happens every couple of weeks.
- Revisor 15y agoWow, Der Spiegel says there are about 5,500 bombs found in Germany every year, about 15 a day. And it's estimated there are still about 100,000 more. http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,801397,00.html http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,801397,00.html
- hopeless 15y agoI can't help thinking that advances in bomb detonators to reduce "duds" could have helped the war (for either side)
- rickmb 15y agoThis happens several times a year in many parts of Europe. I'm sure there are other parts of the world with similar stories. WWII isn't ancient history by a long shot.