[Tech1] The inevitable

[Nick Ware]

I think “suspected WW2 bomb” is media-speak designed not to scare the public. The report I read said that it was of a type likely to contain a booby-trap trigger device that would set the thing off if they tried to drill or cut into it, or otherwise defuse it. And, there was every possibility that the ‘suspected’ bomb might be unstable, and not moveable to a safe place for disposal. Which only left one option!
Nick.
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> On 3 Mar 2021, at 10:21, Alan Taylor via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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> I was amused by newspaper reports referring to it as a ‘suspected WW2 bomb’.  
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> Now I’m not especially qualified with regards to munitions from that era, but judging by the pictures of it, the cylindrical shape - pointed at one end with fins at the other, the fact it was in an area targeted during the war and the enormous bang it made when blown up, at no point did I suspect that it might have been anything other than a WW2 bomb.  Just wondering what else the experts suspected it might have been if not a bomb?