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British Town Worried About WWII Ammo Ship Wreck
Radical Rad writes "For 60 years, 1.4 kilotons of unstable world war II bombs have lain in the rusting wreck of a US cargo ship half-submerged on a sandbank in the river Thames. If it explodes it will be one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever with predictions of a 3 kilometre high wall of mud, water, and metal fragments causing devastation to the nearby town of Sheerness in Kent." The BBC has more.
Try 10,000 feet. Yeah, in a controlled environment that would be awesome!
>Obviously it involves modern technology because that's how this problem will (hopefully) be solved.
So, uhhh, why isn't the fact I'm watching TV covered on slashdot? That's modern technology.
They didn't even MENTION that anything would even be done, at all. The solution, at the moment, won't include ANY modern technology because the solution right now is "sit on your thumbs and close your eyes, you might be in for a big surprise!".
>This article easily could lead into some great posts about the various ways they might be able to learn whether these explosives are still a danger, and if they are, how they might be defused.
ROTFLMAO. Much more likely any responses to this article will lead to that town being exploded.
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Yeah, it would be so cool. Just like it would have been cool to see the Halifax explosion!
What a dumbass comment. Now go and get your mother to change your diapers.
I have to say that, other than the seabird population, an enormous bomb explosion nearby could do nothing but good. The Thames islands are mostly mudflats (and at least one of them may cease to exist before long during to rising sea levels and strengthening tides) and, without human intervention, would be pretty transient.
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Too bad they are not in Irak...
They would have made nice weapons of mass destruction, well hidden !
They could have been a great oppotunity for Bush & Blair.
There were no such things as "cluster bombs" in WWII. Typical journalism. If it was the BBC reporting, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
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I would say quite a few people are killed each year from ordinances resulting from the Civil War; I doubt very seriously we would have Jack Booted Thugs making no-knock raids on the wrong frikkin' house if the Constitution was still taken seriously, something which started with the War of Northern Aggression.
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Actually, nuclear bombs in general, and hydrogen bombs in particular, are not much of a risk for accidental detonation.
What if Muhammad Atta or Tim McVeigh had been able to locate this bomb. Accidental detonation is of the least concern. We have the potential for Uranium and Plutonium to find their way into the water just a few miles from the coast.
I'm no greenie, but I'd prefer not to have to check the catch of the day with a geiger counter before I eat it.
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