Sunday, August 16, 2020

Caution: Explosives

the explosives stored incorrectly that destroyed much of Beruit was a terrible disaster,  but this is not the only place that could blow up due to improper storage.



BBC article:

In the Philippines, Ukraine, Georgia, Libya and Guinea-Bissau there are dangerous dumps of munitions left over from both past and present conflicts, some of them perilously close to residential areas...
The Philippines On an overgrown snake-infested island in Manila Bay sits a store of deteriorating US munitions dating back to World War Two. Rusting shells, depth charges, mortar bombs and other projectiles litter the floor of a bunker while crates of explosives and propellant charges are stacked all the way up to the ceiling.

and then you have the ammonia nitrate used for mining, and the illegal dynamite and diverted hand granades used for fishing.

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