Possible unexploded wartime bomb found on Hiroshima University campus

Well at least that just ordinary one.

Probably still many thousands scattered across the country. Construction work has its dangers from unexploded ordnance.

Probably still many thousands scattered across the country. Construction work has its dangers from unexploded ordnance.

Make that 100’s of 1000’s or possibly millions.

Especially in Okinawa which saw actual ground combat, and artillery was used to a great extent.

The JGSDF EOD teams in Okinawa get on average 300 to 400 calls a year to dispose of UXO.

80 years since the end of WW II. And yet here in Okinawa it's said it will take 70 to one hundred more years to dispose of all these WW II duds.

We should send them back to the sender.

We should send them back to the sender.

With the removal cost bill.

It's hard to believe that any unexploded bomb remained intact after detonation of the atomic bomb.

We should send them back to the sender.

I've read elsewhere (see below) that it was found in a former wartime supply depot, so it may be a Japanese bomb.

"According to the Hiroshima University Museum, the campus was the location of a former Imperial Japanese Army ordnance supply depot where weapons and ammunition were stored. "

Xamo,

An atomic bomb destroys everything on the surface but not things earthen underground.

It's hard to believe that any unexploded bomb remained intact after detonation of the atomic bomb.

It’s not just bombs. Even anti-aircraft explosive rounds can kill a person at 50 feet.

The proximity fused “magic rounds” were particularly known to dud out.

What makes them particularly dangerous is that it’s mostly impossible to predict where they will be, as they were sprayed wildly at flying aircraft.