More and more details - ‘cut in half’?
Someone or someones messed up. Xray is one thing, but then just cutting into it to actually determine/sample contents? Thats what remotely controlled tools are for.
Next we’ll hear it was a chopsaw with a metal abrasive saw blade and not a waterjet.
Or an ordnance person familiar with disabling a grenade. Or pull the pin and toss it in a pit. If it goes boom, it wasn’t empty.
“You put the bullet in the furnace, and it explodes. The smartest kid in the class said that”