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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 6 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking Everyone at Exmouth Marina knew there was an unexploded German bomb in the water.
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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
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