Eight decades after World War II, an American bomb left over from the conflict exploded at a regional airport in Japan.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly ... of the atom bomb, but they weren't able ...