Unexploded American ordnances from World War II are still buried all over Japan, though they rarely detonate. Last year, ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II suddenly detonated at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Wednesday. The blast caused significant disruption, as it left a large crater in a taxiway ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ... cases previously confirmed in Japan also involved bombs fitted ...

A US bomb buried at a ... were nearby at the time. The bomb, which exploded at Miyazaki Airport in south-west Japan, is thought to have been dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" planes ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded ... says the US military carried out an air raid on the airfield in 1945. After that, US forces seized the land. It was later returned to Japan and ...

An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce ... was withheld to coincide with Veterans Day. More than 200 US servicemen went down with the USS Edsell after a fearsome ...

bringing about the end of World War II. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the attacks on Japan, but thousands of tests have been conducted — primarily by the US and USSR ...

This haiku, written by the Japanese poet, Shigemoto Yasuhiko, describes the world’s first nuclear attack. Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped ...