The world is covered in unexploded ordnances from decades of war. Sometimes they explode.
A bomb from World War II exploded at the Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Wednesday. No one was injured but more than 80 flights have been canceled. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa HayashiThe bomb exploded on a taxiway far from any buildings and was captured on video. The explosion left a massive crater in the pavement that will take time to repair. A subsequent investigation by Japanese police and military confirmed that a 500-pound U.S.
The world is covered in unexploded ordnances. During World War II America dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs across Japan and the rest of the South Pacific. Sometimes these bombs don’t explode and they sit, undetonated, in the ground. They’re still dangerous and the world is covered in them. The airport was a launching area for Japanese pilots during the war.
The problem is also bad in Vietnam where the U.S. dropped millions of munitions during its war. Chuck Searcy, a Vietnam vet who watched a child kick an unexploded rocket while visiting the country decades later, spent the back half of his life cleaning them up. Project Renew, the group he started, has detonated more thanEurope is also covered in bombs left over from World War II. The Allies dropped an estimated 2 million tons of bombs on Germany alone.
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