Bomb in Budapest

Unlike those going off in Gujarat, Baghdad and Istanbul, the 4 tonne bomb found near the Danube this morning was dropped on the city in WWII and just never exploded. The police had to clear a 1 km radius - 15.000 residents - before the defuse or detonate squad could come in and deal with it. In the past month, two Hungarian bomb squad personnel have died in Afghanistan, so the risk of this one going off was apparently taken quite seriously. News reports now say the "great bomb wasn't dangerous" and tomorrow the excavators can go back to digging up more acreage for more office buildings... more details here and here if you read hungarian.