I guess there were a few bombs dropped.
Comment on Germany | Major evacuation in Cologne after second world war bombs discovered
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 3 days ago
I’m amazed that this is still happening and it’s not even very rare. They found one just a few months ago on a construction site in my hometown.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
int_not_found@feddit.org 3 days ago
Bombs in WWII were both inaccurate and relatively unreliable. Something around 10% of Bombs dropped didn’t explode and of those that did explode only ~5-10% did so on target.
The answer was to just drop more bombs, increasing the amount of duds even more. Roughly 2.5 million tonnes of tnt equivalent were dropped over Germany alone, mostly in 50kg to 500kg packages.
Additionally factors like muddy grounds both increases the chance of malfunctioning trigger mechanism and the bomb simply burrowing into the ground, hiding from visual detection.
I leave you with the math on how many duds are potentially buried.
To me it is a form of memorial on why war, especially large scale war, just sucks. Society still has to pay the price of the actions of people that are mostly dead by now. And I’m scared that more and more people in the world want to revive the ideology behind those actions.