BIG BANGS in NORTH WALES: Exploding Surplus Ammunition Up in the Mountains of Merionethshire
... AT TRAWSFYNDD A GREAT GUSH OF VIVID FLAME SOARS SKYWARD AS STACKED AMMUNITION IS DETONATED A layer of dust clouds has already been formed by earth tremor and blast at the base of the flame AFTER THE EXPLOSION, a huge column of smoke and dust towers over the rugged Welsh landscape. Dispersing in the centre, the smoke is beginning to concentrate into a mushroom- shaped cloud some thousands of ...