Bomb disposal
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Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all-encompassing term to descr
Pittsburgh Police using a bomb disposal robot to examine a potential bomb during the 2010 Pittsburgh Marathon
A British NCO preparing to dispose of an unexploded bomb during the First World War
A bomb disposal team in 1940
"The long walk": A British Army ATO approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland.
Unexploded ordnance
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Unexploded ordnance and unexploded bombs are explosive weapons that did not explode when they were deployed and remain at risk for detonation, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.
British and Belgian officers stand beside an unexploded German shell in Flanders, during World War I.
Dud shell lodged in a tree, Argonne Forest, World War I
A man holding an unexploded mortar shell during a United Nations Mine Action Service demonstration in Mogadishu
An EOD technician removing sand from a mortar shell during a demonstration