03-13-2020, 02:50 PM
More details about the “bomb” found on Mauna Loa last month, it was a smoke bomb:
Fearing it would reach the town and its watershed, Thomas Jaggar, the founder and first director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, called on the Army Air Corps. On Dec. 27, 10 Keystone B-3 and B-4 biplane bombers struck the lava flow, targeting its tubes and channels.
Half these bombs were packed with 355 pounds of TNT. The other half were not explosive, and instead designed to emit smoke so the pilots could see where the bona fide bombs landed. Mr. Singson found one of those inert devices last month.
Bombing Mauna Loa’s lava flows will always be a fraught proposition. But in a sufficiently dire situation, Dr. Lockwood said, we may again see a day when a Mauna Loa lava flow is greeted by explosive military might.
“It would require martial law, effectively, and an emergency declaration. But I suspect it would be done,” Dr. Lockwood said. Although, he added, “that might depend on the moxie of the governor, and which brickbats they were willing to tolerate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/scien...awaii.html
Fearing it would reach the town and its watershed, Thomas Jaggar, the founder and first director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, called on the Army Air Corps. On Dec. 27, 10 Keystone B-3 and B-4 biplane bombers struck the lava flow, targeting its tubes and channels.
Half these bombs were packed with 355 pounds of TNT. The other half were not explosive, and instead designed to emit smoke so the pilots could see where the bona fide bombs landed. Mr. Singson found one of those inert devices last month.
Bombing Mauna Loa’s lava flows will always be a fraught proposition. But in a sufficiently dire situation, Dr. Lockwood said, we may again see a day when a Mauna Loa lava flow is greeted by explosive military might.
“It would require martial law, effectively, and an emergency declaration. But I suspect it would be done,” Dr. Lockwood said. Although, he added, “that might depend on the moxie of the governor, and which brickbats they were willing to tolerate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/scien...awaii.html
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