Bombs in Baltimore

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Origins of bombs under investigation
State, military officials open criminal inquiry; devices safely removed


By Tom Pelton
Baltimore Sun 
May 7, 2004

Authorities opened a criminal investigation yesterday to determine who
buried 12 explosives -- including a fat 4,000-pound bomb of the kind
dropped from airplanes during World War II -- at a former military
shipyard along the water in remote southern Baltimore.

But the day seemed to yield as many questions as answers, with military
officials suggesting some of the bombs had been manufactured during
different periods, one as late as the Vietnam War. And they said the
bombs could have been buried on the industrial site in Fairfield as
recently as the mid-1990s.

None of the weapons, which were uncovered by construction workers
Wednesday morning, had a working detonator. This means they posed little
risk of blowing up as they were inspected by Army bomb squads using
high-tech gamma-ray equipment.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.bomb07may07,1,632426.story


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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