How can they unscrew the fuse from a WW2 bomb that was rotting under the ground or in water for 80 years, when you may have to use brutal force, heat, etc to remove bolts from a 10-year-old car (and the bolt will snap anyway)?

Question

I would expect that you wouldn’t be able to loosen anything on an old, rusty bomb, especially that it is so unstable and can go off anytime.

In: 1985

Answer 1

As you say after 80 years there’s no way of dismantling it. The procedure is to pack earth around it and then detonate an explosion next to it to destroy any mechanism. This occasionally explodes the bomb like this one in Exeter.

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