Unexploded Bombs News Today

The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. An RTL spokeswoman said the network continued broadcasting its full programme from outsid...

Each year, German soil yields a harrowing harvest: an estimated 2,000 tons of unexploded World War II munitions, the sheer magnitude of these findings necessitates the evacuation of tens of thousands. During World War II, the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces collectively released 2.7 million tonnes of bombs over Europe. In…

For more than five months, the Israeli army has been pounding the Gaza Strip.

Marc Owen of Bombs Away UXO told MailOnline that it was estimated that one in ten bombs dropped during World War II failed to detonate, so there are potentially large numbers still hidden underground.

Experts say hundreds of thousands of unspent munitions lie on the seabed around Britain.

Experts dug 19th century shell out of concrete, took it to a quarry in Pembrokeshire, buried it in sand and detonated it

HM Coastguard says changes in tides and weather can reveal unexploded bombs and artillery shells.

One of Coldrick’s interests was shooting and he is credited with pioneering the use of shotguns to disrupt IEDs, at perilously close range

The weapons have a record of killing civilians - and the president said sending them was a difficult decision.

EXCLUSIVE: Half a century after the US withdrawal, a British organisation is working with locals to remove millions of lethal munitions that have already killed more than 100,000 civilians.