Juxtaposition of the Day: So Much for Ploughshares and Pruning Hooks

caption: A disarmed World War II bomb is secured to a truck near Mülheim Bridge in Cologne, Germany, where authorities cleared about 20,000 people from the area until the device was rendered safe. (NYT story here.)

caption: A truck hauls a damaged Eurofighter jet down the Autobahn 9 near Plech, Germany, on Thursday for repairs in Manching, Germany.

The photos were taken a day apart. They were both published (not consecutively) in the May 29 WSJ Week in Photos gallery.

(photo 1: Rolf Vennenbernd/AFP/Getty Images. photo 2: Daniel Karmann/ European Press Photo Agency)