Sentence examples for unexploded weapons from inspiring English sources

The program helped educate Vietnamese, especially farmers and children, about the dangers posed by the unexploded weapons, and casualties have diminished.

Dangerous battery acids, unexploded weapons and highly radioactive fuel elements in the Kursk's twin reactors could pose a serious danger to the recovery operation.

When we returned to Kigali we trod carefully to avoid landmines and unexploded weapons – mindful of the many one-legged children we saw hobbling around the city.

But the data has also been a source of disappointment and irritation, because NATO provided no information about the types of unexploded weapons, or the fuzes used to arm each missile or bomb.

Today, despite the painful reality of a postconflict Iraq -- whose orphans roam streets littered with unexploded weapons, where food and water is scarce and sanitation is almost nonexistent -- we see hopeful similarities to that fledgling state.

The agency is warning those who are returning to beware of mines and other unexploded weapons from the brief war, which forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes.

Unexploded nuclear weapons emit little radiation (and should not be confused with radiological weapons, or "dirty bombs").

Other explosive remnants of war include unexploded ordnance – weapons such as grenades and cluster bombs that did not explode on impact but can still detonate – and weapons that are discarded in civilian areas by combatants, known as abandoned ordnance.

Army officials called it the largest concentration of unexploded chemical weapons ever found in the United States.

"Impolex," the story of a young soldier wandering the woods after World War II in search of unexploded German weapons, was inspired by Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," but the stubbornly strange, hazy movie, despite evoking something of the book's hallucinatory mood, is no one's idea of a literary adaptation.

He said Grozny would be off limits for two weeks while Interior Ministry troops combed it for weapons, unexploded bombs and booby traps.