{"id":561632,"date":"2026-05-02T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:53:18","slug":"ww2-german-bomb-detonated-after-plymouth-building-site-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561632\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 German bomb detonated after Plymouth building site discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Col Nick Handy, the senior explosives officer leading the operation, said the bomb could not be moved because its fuses could not be fully assessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said X-ray examinations had failed to give a clear picture of one of the fuses, which meant it had to be blown in situ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drones were seen hovering over the site throughout the morning and a bomb disposal robot was sent to Southwark Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Handy said the blast was caused by about a third of the explosives in the bomb, which was about 40mm (1.5in) thick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It could have been a lot bigger,&#8221; he said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We set out yesterday to deflagrate that item in order to limit the blast affects and we achieved that successfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the bomb burned at about 1,000C (1,832F) for about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The guys and girls on the ground were excellent in everything that they did &#8211; we won,&#8221; Handy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Col Nick Handy, the senior explosives officer leading the operation, said the bomb could not be moved because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}