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.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion in the desert equaled 20,000 tons of TNT. Radioactive fallout ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — August 6, 1945, marked a significant milestone in world history. On this day, the U.S. detonated the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bombing came years ...

Okinawa authorities discovered a U.S.-made bomb believed to date to World War II during an airport safety survey on a southern Japanese island, the first ordnance found in a series of inspections ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...

Although World War Two feels far removed from the present day, its deadly remnants continue to threaten communities as unexploded bombs and mines remain hidden across land and sea, with some areas ...

A large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II was defused on Saturday after it was discovered at a construction site, police said. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes after a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of a World War II bomb in Slovakia's capital during construction work prompted evacuations on Tuesday, officials said. The emergency measure covered several blocks in downtown Bratislava ...