{"id":63091,"date":"2024-04-05T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:03:28","slug":"how-hidden-ww2-bombs-across-the-pacific-are-found-and-destroyed-80-years-after-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63091","title":{"rendered":"How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, 80 years after war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices<\/p>\n<p>The Marshall Islands is a nation of atolls \u2013 hundreds of small islands carpeted in coconut palms and pandanus trees. While these atolls in the Pacific Ocean are a picture of tropical beauty, they are also home to explosive remnants of war.<\/p>\n<p>Eight decades after the guns fell silent, munitions left by the US and Japan still litter beaches, jungles, and lagoons and continue to pose a hidden but lethal threat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devicesThe Marshall Islands is a nation of atolls \u2013 hundreds of small islands carpeted in coconut palms and pand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,602,874,1439,63,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-solomon-islands","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63091\/revisions\/63092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}