On 7 Jun, 12:30, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message , Andrew Robert Breen
writes

A bomb that's been sitting in the ground for 60-plus years could
be much more sensitive to vibration than it originally was.
Explosives can get very unstable in their old age. Not nice.

They used AMATOL then, which doesn't have a long shelf life and isn't in
any way water proof. 60+ years buried in mud and you don't have a hair
trigger device..... you have a rusty cylinder full of sludge :-)

Well you could be right, I suppose.

Perhaps this video (CCTV) footage of a 1000-pounder being detonated in
Coventry in March is a fake:

http://videos.icnetwork.co.uk/covent...raph/bomb2.wmv

In which case it would be kind of you to put the Coventry Evening
Telegraph right on the matter:

http://tinyurl.com/42m2nf

It certainly seems to go up with a hell of a bang for a "rusty
cylinder full of sludge".

Ian