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News story just said unexploded bomb washed up on beach?
Aren't all bombs unexploded?
It would be hard for an exploded bomb to wash ashore.
4 Answers
- Anonymous6 months agoFavourite answer
Lol, journalistic convention. That was the term (UXB) that was used in the Blitz and it seems to have stuck. I regularly commission surveys for UXOs which is the more usual term, but I guess any ordnance that had already exploded would not be much of a threat.
- ?Lv 42 months ago
This just in from Reuters :
' Bomb fragments can still wash ashore from an exploded bomb '
- ?Lv 76 months ago
There used to be a Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb sitting in the Thames estuary, which the locals used to fish off. But It was a dummy practice bomb.
