US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

The desert can hold many secrets. The desert near Los Alamos in New Mexico just after World War 2 held perhaps the biggest secret of them all. Learn more about the Most Dangerous Science Experiment in ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...

An unexploded bomb from World War II found on the grounds of Frankfurt Airport will be disposed of late Tuesday, police said. The bomb, weighing 75 to 100 kilograms, will be defused or detonated after ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...

Police said they would defuse the British-made bomb on site. LONDON -- Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared ...

For most of the next two decades, the decision to use nuclear weapons went largely unquestioned. But beginning in the 1960s, scholars and activists asserted that it was both unnecessary and immoral.

Firefighters tackling a massive blaze in the North Yorkshire moors have been hampered by exploding wartime bombs. Crews have been working to put out a wildfire on Langdale Moor, in the North York ...

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