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I might add that WW2 bombs are found every week somewhere in Germany. They're dug up when old buildings are demolished, when rails are repaired, sometimes child
by codeflo 14y ago
I might add that WW2 bombs are found every week somewhere in Germany. They're dug up when old buildings are demolished, when rails are repaired, sometimes children find them while playing in the woods. I don't understand the technology behind bomb disposal and consider it a small miracle that rarely anything ever happens. In fact, bomb defusings are so routine that they don't usually make it the national news.
(This one is noteworthy only because it had to be actually detonated, and in the process caused quite a bit of damage.)
- gadders 14y agoDitto for the UK :-( Although one of the biggest known unexploded bombs is a US ship that was sunk in the Thames Estuary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery "According to a BBC news report in 1970,[9] it was determined that if the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1,000-foot-wide (300 m) column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) into the air and generate a wave 16 feet (5 m) high. Almost every window in Sheerness (pop. c20,000) would be broken and buildings would be damaged by the blast. However news reports in May 2012 (including one by BBC Kent) stated that the wave could be about 4 feet (1 m) high, which although lower than previous estimates would be enough to cause flooding in some coastal settlements."