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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb.

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 ticking.

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