6,000 Evacuated During Defusing of American WWII Bomb Found Buried in Hong Kong (cbsnews.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2215203/6000-evacuated-during-defusing-of-american-wwii-bomb-found-buried-in-hong-kong
- Source link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-wwii-bomb-hong-kong-thousands-evacuated/
> Police said the bomb was 1.5 meters (nearly 5 feet) in length and weighed about 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). It was discovered by construction workers in Quarry Bay, a bustling residential and business district on the west side of Hong Kong island... [A police official] said that because of "the exceptionally high risks associated with its disposal," approximately 1,900 households involving 6,000 individuals were "urged to evacuate swiftly." The operation to deactivate the bomb began late Friday and lasted until around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. No one was injured in the operation.
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> Bombs left over from World War II are discovered from time to time in Hong Kong. The city was occupied by Japanese forces during the war, when it became a base for the Japanese military and shipping. The United States, along with other Allied forces, targeted Hong Kong in air raids to disrupt Japanese supply lines and infrastructure.
"Bombs from the war have triggered evacuations and emergency measures around the globe in recent months," [2]reports CBS News :
> Earlier this month, a [3]500-pound bomb was discovered in Slovakia's capital during construction work, prompting evacuations. In August, large parts of Dresden, Germany, were [4]evacuated so experts could defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. In June, over [5]20,000 people were evacuated from Cologne after three unexploded U.S. bombs from the war were found... In March, a World War II bomb [6]was found near the tracks of Paris' Gare du Nord station. In February, more than 170 bombs were [7]found near a children's playground in northern England. And in October 2024, a World War II bomb [8]exploded at a Japanese airport.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/ww2-bomb-defused-hong-kong-0bc14ce5cc6e7b1b96d04ae60093b2a3
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-wwii-bomb-hong-kong-thousands-evacuated/
[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-bomb-found-slovakia-evacuations/
[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-bomb-dresden-germany-evacuations/
[5] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-world-war-ii-bombs-found-cologne-evacuations/
[6] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-bomb-paris-train-station-unexploded-gare-du-nord/
[7] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-bombs-found-children-playground-uk/
[8] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-wwii-bomb-explodes-japan-airport-runway-flights-canceled/
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Only self-righteous attention-seeking idiots who have lost all sense of what constitutes normal human interaction would be offended by a remark referencing the fact that a multi-ethnic city had a high population density.
And this is 2025 so, yes, my remark was grossly racist and offensive. I expect all my university appointments to be terminated forthwith.
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Respect, GreyFree!
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To set this straight, Trump weaponized the Government, and is forcing prosecutions against his perceived enemies. Biden never did that. The DOJ under Biden followed evidence and did prosecute Trump, because his is simply a criminal.
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You really don't think there was evidence against Trump, and you don't think that Trump is weaponizing the government against his perceived political enemies? I got a bridge to sell to you.
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It was inside Kowloon walled city. The bomb went off. Nobody noticed a difference.
Newsworthy? (Score:2)
Isn't this like a once a month thing across Europe?
[1]https://www.dw.com/en/germany-... [dw.com]
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-evacuated-in-berlin-over-2-wwii-bombs/a-74053192
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_bomb_disposal_in_Europe
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When you look at all of Europe, it's more like a weekly thing, and sometimes a daily thing. The ones that make the news are the bigger bombs like the thousand-pound bomb mentioned in TFS or the rare ones that cannot be made safe and have to be detonated in place, which can mean a lot of new business for window installers even with dampening.
Iron harvest (Score:2)
This was from WWII; however, there are still some unexploded [1]bombs left over from WWI [militaryhistoria.com], and they are still dangerous.
[1] https://militaryhistoria.com/iron-harvest/
I think it is a shame.. (Score:2)
As a tech worker, I refused to ever get into the war industry. It seems like a waste of time to me. I think that everybody who ever spent their lives making weapons wasted their time. I do understand that great advances in science happen during wars. There should be another way. I remember the Iraq war, how hundreds of oil wells were burning, and I am thinking how stupid are we as a Human Race?
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You certainly have a right to your opinion, and I respect your right to follow your beliefs. However, I'd like to ask you what, if anything, you've ever done for your country or have you just held out your hand hoping your government would drop money into it?
And before you try turning the table on me and asking me the same question, let me tell you that I'm a Nam vet (Not, mind you, a "Viet Nam era veteran") who served in Uncle Sam's Navy and can proudly claim to be a member of the [1] Tonkin Gulf Yacht clu [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkin_Gulf_Yacht_Club
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I would like to think that I have advanced the science of electronics and computer science in my life. I am ashamed to say that back in the 80's, that I helped Burr-Brown to make advanced A/D converters for Nuclear Missiles. That was just a few months. I don't think that a person should be proud that they can figure out a better way to kill another person to advance the motives of a crazy non-tech person. In any case, I do love American Values as the Founders gave us, and I thank you for your service.
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I helped Burr-Brown to make advanced A/D converters for Nuclear Missiles.
Then your hands are just as dirty. Thanks for the lecture though.
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I was a kid, given a candy factory. Advanced test equipment, and software. Back then.. I was top of my class. It seemed that I had the candy. I should have maybe chosen Sun Micro systems, and Oracle? Looking back at it, I did OK. However, it was a series of hard choices. I did the National Instruments thing, they were horrible for me. They are now Emerson now I guess. I did John Deere, I know their "guts", and would only return if they would stop letting sales people "trump" the engineers.
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Hopefully these bombs remain historical artifacts.
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3.500 were evacuated two days ago in Berlin. It didn't make it to the news because it happens about two or three times a year. Has been happening twice or thee times a year since 1945 to be precise. No, I certainly haven't done anything for your country - and, believe it or not, the way you're talking does not exactly give me muich of an intention to.
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It did, in fact, make the news: [1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/wo... [telegraph.co.uk]
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/19/berlin-second-world-war-bombs-found-defused-mitte-spandau/
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> what, if anything, you've ever done for your country or have you just held out your hand hoping your government would drop money into it? ...let me tell you that I'm a Nam vet
Because anyone who has not served in the military like you is some kind of welfare queen? I think your ideas are a little outdated. But thanks for your service!
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No, there are many ways to do things for your country other than military service. I was just showing how I served to avoid a "put up or shut up" situation.
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I think you joined the Navy not to serve your country but to avoid the draft.
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Well, there's that too, but I prefer to think of it of deciding for myself which branch to serve in.
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And if the person I asked had answered that he'd helped create wealth for the nation, I would have thanked him for a job well done. Military service isn't the only way to do something for your country, it's just the most obvious one.
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War is awful, but, that doesn't remove the necessity of having weapons. And a military.
The threats are real, whether we approve of them or not. If we did not develop weapons, we would be wiped out by those who did. It's an unhappy truth, but a truth nonetheless.
There is precisely zero obligation on your part to participate in the development of weapons. That's what freedom is all about. But even so, ensuring the ongoing survival of ones' people is hardly a waste of time.
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There is a paradox in my thoughts. I think that America should be an example of freedom, and decency. In my mind, we should just keep our heads down, be the baddest kick ass person on the block, and carry on with our own lives. However, I see Trump. I think he is Shit from Head to Toe. I am not giving my skills to that piece of shit.
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Fortunately for you then, Trump has been the first the US president in 50 years that hasn't started a foreign war.
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Hardly no Americans were killed during the Biden Administration. Trump says things like: "Nobody", and "Everybody", and "In the History of the World.". I was taught in my College English class to never talk like that. It is the language of a madman. I didn't think that English should be a requirement for me to learn about Electronics and Software. I guess this is why: If stupid people just do software and electronics, then stupid people like Trump will take advantage of you. Trump is planning on t
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According to the admin itself we are at war with Venezuela and have been for months, that's their reasoning for using the AEA.
And so by your logic no Democrat has started a war since LBJ. If you agree to that then you can keep using "started a war"
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You can't be the "baddest kick ass person on the block" without having an effective ability to fight. That means weapons, and it means training on how to use them most effectively. When going up against the Soviet Union, that means a nuclear arsenal. We made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we also helped ensure through deterrence that the Soviets never moved on Western Europe, and we helped ensure through diplomacy that World War III never broke out.
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I don't think that's a particularly defensible position when we're talking about World War II. As screwed up as things seem right now, the world would almost certainly have been a much worse place had the US stayed out of the war.
I'm assuming, of course, that "stayed out of the war" would have also included not manufacturing huge numbers of tanks, planes, and ships for the Russians nor the British.
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I am not saying that the US should have stayed out of WWII. I think that we in America had people of the same character as MAGAs before WW2 that made thing much worse than it had to be, with their isolationists, and their "america first" bullshit. This is on repeat.
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War is dumb, but giving bullies free reign is dumber.
Yes, Iran and Vietnam were probably mistakes, but nobody said conflicts are easy nor clear.