Would you believe that there is the equivalent to a live tactical nuclear weapon just outside London, that it could go off at any time, that British bureaucracies are well aware of it, but that almost nothing has been done about it for 75 years?
Would you believe that there is the equivalent to a live tactical nuclear weapon just outside London, that it could go off at any time, that British bureaucracies are well aware of it, but that almost nothing has been done about it for 75 years?
Sometimes they call it ‘between rock and a hard place’.
Blowing it up would probably not be very productive.
Moving it probably would not be possible.
Leaving it alone, with all the dangers it poses, is probably ‘safest’ way to go, without any real chance of safety.
Maybe they are hoping that the salt water will eat it up.
Who knows?
I have a solution. Just drive a Tesla out there.
how about rubber tire mats 1000 feet thick on top and weighted with 5000 tons steel and detonate it.
one could model it in a supercomputer to see if it was advisable.
Big deal, it hasn’t happened. Halifax was bigger.
This is click-bait.
I would like to know if the 1500 tons is cargo weight or NEC (net explosive content). The NEC of most military ordnance is a small fraction of its total weight; and even smaller again if the cargo weight includes packaging and dunnage.
Exactly what the explosive filler(s) is/are would also be important for determining what the risk is. Some become less stable and therefore more dangerous; others deteriorate to become more and more inert with time.
The fuzes may, as described, be an issue. Again, exactly what they are is the key. It is highly unlikely that there are large bombs or high explosive shells, which are equipped with fuzes that ship as separate items only introduced as the ordnance is loaded onto airplanes or into guns. I suspect that this alludes to fixed ammunition like 60mm or 81mm mortar bombs, or small calibre anti-aircraft ammunition, which is shipped as complete rounds. These are packed accordingly and while there still is a danger of sympathetic explosion, it is much less probable as the packaging is designed to reduce this risk. Indeed, the packaging, if it is not damaged, becomes the problem as can often preserve ammunition almost indefinitely.
Yet, there is near silence about a broken down Russian owned, Malta flagged freighter that has been turned away from many ports in the UK and EU.
It’s cargo is 20,000 thousand tons of ammonium nitrate. Just add diesel fuel and a fuse.
Oh yes, the crew is from Syria.