GETTY A 3D image produced by the radar appeared to show objects that look like bombs

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Peter Lohr claims to have made the astonishing find in a bunker in central Germany. The 70-year-old said he stumbled across the Nazi leader's stockpile by using ground-penetrating radar in the Jonas Valley in Thuringia. A 3D image produced by the radar appeared to show objects that would fit with the shape of a nuclear bomb owned by the Nazis during the Second World War.

Five objects were detected including two which could be atomic weapons, he said. If his assertion is correct, the former medicinal engineer said there was a chance that the weapons could decay to a point where they begin to leak radioactive waste into the environment. Even the smallest amounts of plutonium could contaminate the drinking water for over 30,000 years.

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Mr Lohr said: "The metal's been lying there for 71 years. "At some point it will decay and then we will have a second Chernobyl on our hands."