This World War II Bomb Detonates While Being Diffused

A World War II bomb was found in Poland. Weighing 12,000 pounds, the “Tallboy” or “Bomb, Medium Capacity,” detonated as Navy divers attempted to diffuse it. Yikes! Good thing all divers were out of the blast radius when the bomb went off, as Nerdist detailed: 

Reuters described the Whoops-a-booms-y in a recent report, which comes via Digg. According to Reuters, the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) dropped the bomb in 1945 near the port of Szczecin, in an attack on a German cruiser. It lied there, dormant, until September 2019, when workers deepening the waterway near the port discovered it. (Unfortunately, no signs of either the One Ring to rule them all, nor Godzilla, were reported along with the discovery.)

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