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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb

Freitag, 30. Oktober 2026 · 44 min

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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 By Samira Shackle. Read by Dinita Gohil. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardi…;

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