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How WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war
Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices
Northern Michigan University researcher Ruth Abbott analysed US bombing surveys from 1945 and found America dropped 12,918 tons of ordnance on four Marshall Islands atolls during the second world war. In 2023, the US state department launched a$1.7m project with not-for-profit Golden West Humanitarian Foundation to remove unexploded bombs on four atolls prioritised by the Marshall Islands government. Attempts to reduce the dangers are being made with risk education offered at community gatherings in local churches in parts of the Marshall Islands, teaching people how to recognise and avoid hidden bombs.
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