Fragments is a series of short articles from the Explosive Weapons Monitor, a research initiative of the International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW), on the use and impact of explosive weapons in populated areas. This issue looks at how evidence…
© Esercito Italiano | CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 IT As climate change causes glaciers to retreat, it is not just a new face of Europe’s mountain destinations that is being revealed, but traces of their past too. Snow melt in the Dolomites has laid bare…
More than 240 explosives dating back to the Second World War have been discovered at a construction site on Üllői Road in Budapest, where Hungarian military bomb disposal experts faced a particularly challenging operation involving fused and damaged munitions. The Hungarian…
Hundreds of World War I-era munitions that spent more than a century buried under snow and ice have been discovered in the Italian Dolomites. Roughly 250 artillery shells, mortar bombs and other ammunition were exposed by melting glaciers in the Trentino-Alto…
On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started tickingBy Samira Shackle. Read by Dinita GohilRead the text…
My sense is that Cooper didn’t espouse the Scout rifle concept merely to elicit responses, create dogma and raise up a following—not that all those things didn’t result anyway. He simply wanted to advance “the art of the rifle,…
The Italian army has uncovered a tranche of ordnance dating back to the White War of the First World War Hundreds of World War I-era bombs, grenades and artillery shells have been uncovered by the melting of ice in Italy’s…
He tried to escape from the Germans seven times in 136 days. The post One of the first Americans to survive a submarine attack led a daring POW escape appeared first on We Are The Mighty. Get We Are The Mighty’s…
Italian army removes and defuses 250 explosives encased in ice for more than 100 years after hikers’ sightings A significant cache of unexploded bombs from the first world war emerged this summer from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Dolomites, the Italian army…
You’ve likely heard of the Welrod, the integrally suppressed, bolt-action pistol used by both SOE and OSS operatives during the Second World War. The Welwand was a similar idea. It’s called a wand because it’s a straight piece of pipe…
1914–1918: fronts, alliances, and post‑war settlements.
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