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Unexploded ordnance will long threaten Gazans despite tenuous ceasefire

Enormous amounts of unexploded ordnance across the Gaza Strip will threaten Palestinians for years to come, even if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds up, as it largely has for roughly a month now. The ...
News4Jax

Area deemed safe after construction teams find unexploded ordnance on NAS Jacksonville flight line

NAS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Construction teams found an unexploded ordnance on NAS Jacksonville’s flight line on Wednesday morning. The area and several buildings were evacuated, but it is now deemed ...
Science Daily

Using sound to 'see' unexploded munitions on the seafloor

More than 400 underwater sites in the United States are potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance -- weapons that did not explode upon deployment. More than 400 underwater sites in the United ...
DelmarvaNow

'Super bazooka' ordnance recovered both at Assateague, in Ocean Pines

Two pieces of unexploded military ordnance were recovered in Worcester County on the same day. The devices were identified as "Super Bazooka" practice rockets from a former World War II training range ...
Forbes

UNICEF: Unexploded Ordnance A Daily Threat For Ukraine’s Children

Nazar, 13, is on the long road to recovery with support from UNICEF and partners after being badly injured by an explosive remnant of war in eastern Ukraine. In Nikopol, Kharkiv oblast, eastern ...
CNN

Scores of unexploded World War II bombs discovered under children’s playground

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler, Northumberland ...
NPR

They found a 'bucket of lentils.' Then it blew up. The menace of Gaza's unexploded ordnance

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — "The other boys told me they were buckets of lentils," recalls 8-year-old Joud Ahmad Al Angar. He's talking about the container of small black pellets he and his cousins found ...
Science Daily

Environmental impact of unexploded ordnance in the Baltic Sea

The south-western Baltic Sea has about 3,000 kilograms of dissolved toxic chemicals released from unexploded ordnance, according to a new study. The substances were detected in almost all water ...
Stars and Stripes

Japan detonated 13 tons of WWII-era ordnance on Okinawa last fiscal year

Japan’s military disposed of nearly 13 tons of unexploded ordnance on Okinawa between April 2024 and March — a little more than half the amount handled the previous fiscal year, according to ...
Jewish Press

3 Buses Detonate in Bat Yam, Holon; Unexploded Ordnance Found on 2 Additional Buses

Firefighters who arrived at the scene found the bus completely engulfed in flames but miraculously, there were no reports of anyone trapped or injured. Feb. 20, 2025 Three buses were set ablaze in ...
Yahoo

Trains delayed after suspected wartime bomb found

Aldi and Asda have been evacuated after a suspected unexploded bomb was found in Bridgend [Google] Railway lines between Cardiff and Swansea have reopened after a suspected wartime bomb was found.