German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused

Somehow strange seeing this on the frontpage of HN (a mostly american(i suppose) tech community).. Old WWII bombss are found pretty often in Germany, and somehow it's non-news here (i think). The bomb in Koblenz was in the news for one day, but certainly not on page 1..

Indeed. I live in Germany and didnt' even hear about it although I follow the news quite closely.

Then again it's really not that big of a deal as something like this happens every couple of weeks.

Wow, Der Spiegel says there are about 5,500 bombs found in Germany every year, about 15 a day.

And it's estimated there are still about 100,000 more.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,801397,00.html

This happens several times a year in many parts of Europe. I'm sure there are other parts of the world with similar stories.

WWII isn't ancient history by a long shot.

I can't help thinking that advances in bomb detonators to reduce "duds" could have helped the war (for either side)