WWII isn't quite done with us

[wtg]

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries, Japanese officials said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-wwii-bomb-explodes-japan-airport-runway-flights-canceled/

[Big_Al]

I've heard of unexploded ordnance incidents in Europe and Great Britain before. I'm surprised I haven't heard of ones in Japan before. I wonder if the widespread use of incendiary bombs during the last stages of the war when B29s made Japan more accessible to bombers partially accounts for that.

Big Al

[Daniel]

There's a lot of bombs on the ocean floor in Hawaiian waters. I can't opine on whether any of them might explode because I have no idea.

[pique]

There's unexploded ordinance all over the BLM lands where I regularly ride my horse. The feds have gone in to do a lot of mitigation, though it is unclear exactly what they were doing, and how much safer they made the area, if at all. We're right near a military base, Fort Harrison, and we hear them practicing war games on occasion. Not pleasant. But I imagine that it wasn't that long ago that nobody lived out where we are now.