45,000 evacuated in Germany - Unexploded 1.8 Ton WW2 British Bomb!

[mmj_uk]

Unless it is an unexploded nuke the evacuation zone is retardedly excessive.

 

[godinman]

Hopefully it's in one of those multicultural German cities.

 

[Judgeneo]

We had to evacuate Coventry city centre a couple of years ago due to an unexploded bomb.
I don't think it was that big though :O

 

[Killerkebab]

Someone find me a bigger bomb!

This beauty is 27 Tons! could wipe the whole of London out that! lol not bad for an old fashioned 1961 Nuke!

~50 megaton bomb, the shockwave was felt thousands of miles away, IIRC people could hear the explosion as far as 600 miles away

The old nukes were the most powerful, the real engineering trick is developing smaller and smaller nukes with more and more precision. Why level an entire city when you could aim for smaller targets more reliably

 

[Arnie]

Hopefully it's in one of those multicultural German cities.

Logan_TnT's 4th account or is it someone else?

 

[Tefal]

~50 megaton bomb, the shockwave was felt thousands of miles away, IIRC people could hear the explosion as far as 600 miles away

The old nukes were the most powerful, the real engineering trick is developing smaller and smaller nukes with more and more precision. Why level an entire city when you could aim for smaller targets more reliably

nah it's just that multiple smaller devices (but still large) are more efficient at large scale destruction.


However very small devices (suitcase size) are very inefficient requiring more radioactive material for their explosive power and also leave more radioactive contamination after wards.

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Interesting story but evacuating a 2000 metre radius is completely over the top.

 

[ianh]

Sorry but LOL at all the Armchair Bomb Disposal technicians here saying 2000m exclusion zone is too big. Detonated many 2ton bombs from your PC recently? Anyone? Didn't think so, maybe the military experts who do this job professionally 'might' have a better clue about damage zones than a keyboard warrior LOL I know I haven't a clue how big the zone should be so if an expert says 2000m and people on a tinterweb forum says less, I know who I'm listening to!

 

[One]

Sorry but LOL at all the Armchair Bomb Disposal technicians here saying 2000m exclusion zone is too big. Detonated many 2ton bombs from your PC recently? Anyone? Didn't think so, maybe the military experts who do this job professionally 'might' have a better clue about damage zones than a keyboard warrior LOL I know I haven't a clue how big the zone should be so if an expert says 2000m and people on a tinterweb forum says less, I know who I'm listening to!

I'm an industry leading doctor and i don't think the bomb exploding would be life threatening so they shouldn't have even evacuated anyone.

 

[Strife212]

Sorry but LOL at all the Armchair Bomb Disposal technicians here saying 2000m exclusion zone is too big. Detonated many 2ton bombs from your PC recently? Anyone? Didn't think so, maybe the military experts who do this job professionally 'might' have a better clue about damage zones than a keyboard warrior LOL I know I haven't a clue how big the zone should be so if an expert says 2000m and people on a tinterweb forum says less, I know who I'm listening to!

Ah ok then they may as well have dropped this bomb on Berlin by itself and not bothered fighting the war

 

[Reaper 392]

Sorry but LOL at all the Armchair Bomb Disposal technicians here saying 2000m exclusion zone is too big. Detonated many 2ton bombs from your PC recently? Anyone? Didn't think so, maybe the military experts who do this job professionally 'might' have a better clue about damage zones than a keyboard warrior LOL I know I haven't a clue how big the zone should be so if an expert says 2000m and people on a tinterweb forum says less, I know who I'm listening to!

would have to agree with you there. the sum total of my experience with explosives and the danger zone comes from watching mythbusters. a couple of those explosives have been huge, but nothing like 1.8 tonnes.

the mythbusters cement mixer was only a few hundred pounds of ampho in a completely deserted area, and that had a 1km exclusion zone iirc, so 2km for a 1.8 tonne bomb with much more powerful explosives seemms about right to me

 

[MBennett]

I thought 1.8 Ton seemed like a huge bomb, but look at this!

Thats a British Lancaster flying with an 11 Ton Grand Slam Bomb underneath it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)

I saw one of these today at Kellam Island museum in Sheffield (they were made here) - Massive!

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Sorry but LOL at all the Armchair Bomb Disposal technicians here saying 2000m exclusion zone is too big. Detonated many 2ton bombs from your PC recently? Anyone? Didn't think so, maybe the military experts who do this job professionally 'might' have a better clue about damage zones than a keyboard warrior LOL I know I haven't a clue how big the zone should be so if an expert says 2000m and people on a tinterweb forum says less, I know who I'm listening to!

A bomb made 70 years ago isn't going to be that powerful.
If one bomb could do damage to a 2k radius then London could have been made flat overnight.

Of course we have not got the data to quantify the exact distance to evacuate (quantitative), but qualitative common sense says it is completely over the top.

 

[Glaucus]

If one bomb could do damage to a 2k radius then London could have been made flat overnight.

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That's not what exclusion zones are for. Such bombs can't do such damage. However it can stil send one littel bit of sharpnel out at high speeds which could cause injury and is set at a distance that is large enough to ensure no such shrapnel could possibly hit.

Exclusion zone isn't the same as destruction zone.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Will the bomb be returned to the British? It's a historical artifact afterall.

Strapped to a Heinkel and dropped on the east end for old times sake ?

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Strapped to a Heinkel and dropped on the east end for old times sake ?

To be honest it would be much more useful if it was dropped on Stoke On Trent.

 

[MeEsH BaKkA]

A bomb made 70 years ago isn't going to be that powerful.
If one bomb could do damage to a 2k radius then London could have been made flat overnight.

Of course we have not got the data to quantify the exact distance to evacuate (quantitative), but qualitative common sense says it is completely over the top.

I would imagine a 70 year old bomb would be that powerful.

I guess nobody understands ballistic trajectories and what happens to the bomb casing when it explodes... A 10 grams of steel flying at a couple of thousand fps will go right through you at a mile.

Real life is not a computer game its not just the blast radius you have to worry about.

 

[neil_g]

shrapnel, etc.

would you really want to chance it? why dont you go and play with one, and report back and see if it does much damage

think about the **** storm the media would create if they never evacuated and it went off

Show me where I said dont evacuate? Even up to 2km the shockwave will cause damage.

So go yourself.

 

[G-MAN2004]

A bomb made 70 years ago isn't going to be that powerful.

Ah, an obvious explosives expert. Get rid of these other professionals and get this man over there!

This is a pretty interesting site that shows the thermal damage/pressure/fallout of various nuclear bombs on Google Maps.

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20

 

[leaskovski]

my flat mate reckons that perticular size bomb was nicknamed a cookie, it wouldnt create much of a crater but it'l blow windows out and roofs off for a fair old distance around it

Its nick named the block buster because it can destroy an entire block.