bombs
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Everybody Fine After Giant British WWII ‘Tallboy’ Bomb Finally Blew Up In Poland
Going by what I know from Hollywood, the bomb-disposal community has a firm definition for the strategic technique of blowing up a bomb you can’t defuse: a controlled explosion. A Polish bomb squad just demonstrated what an uncontrolled explosion looks like, but thanks to them, nobody was hurt.
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AI Trained On Moon Craters Is Helping Find Unexploded Bombs From The Vietnam War
There’s still no completely safe and surefire method for locating unexploded ordinance after a war is over, but researchers at Ohio State University have found a way to harness image processing algorithms, powered by machine learning, to study satellite imagery and locate hot spots where UXO are likely to be located.
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Instagram Pulls Milo Yiannopoulos Post Appearing To Praise Mail Bombs
Instagram has pulled from its platform a post by former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos that seemingly praised the apparent pipe bombs sent this week to a number of suspected explosive devices did not go off and that the Daily Beast hadn’t received one.
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German Bomb Technicians Successfully Defuse World War II-Era Allied ‘Blockbuster’ In Frankfurt
Photo: AP Large sections of central Frankfurt, Germany were evacuated on Sunday in preparation for authorities to defuse a World War II-era, 1.4-ton HC 4000 air mine, with CNN reporting at least 60,000 people were asked to leave the area while the bomb defusal operation proceeds.