Edward Cowling:
They used AMATOL then, which doesn't have a long shelf life ...
you have a rusty cylinder full of sludge :-)

"Ian":
Well you could be right, I suppose.

Perhaps this video (CCTV) footage of a 1000-pounder being detonated in
Coventry in March is a fake:

http://videos.icnetwork.co.uk/covent...raph/bomb2.wmv

In which case it would be kind of you to put the Coventry Evening
Telegraph right on the matter:

http://tinyurl.com/42m2nf

It says 50 kg. That's 110 pounds, not 1000. (For the Coventry UXB;
the Bromley-by-Bow one was bigger.)
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