TOKYO —An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries, Japanese officials said. Land and Transport ...
15 April 1986 - US bombing raid on Libya 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion 4-6 May 1986 - Tokyo Economic Summit 11-12 October 1986 - US-Soviet Reykjavik Summit November 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair becomes public April-December 1987 - INF agreement reached 8-10 June 1987 - ...
“Most Westerners have scarcely heard of the bombing of Chongqing. Even for the Chinese themselves, the events were concealed for decades. Yet they are part of one of the great stories of the Second World War, and perhaps the least known. For decades, our understanding of that global ...
The 1925 bombing of the undefended Moroccan town of Sheshuan was an act of revenge for a dreadful defeat the Spanish ground forces suffered there in late 1924 at the hands of Moroccan guerrillas. General Francisco Franco, who had founded the Spanish Foreign Legion in 1920, had conducted a ru...
On that day that will live in infamy, 2,403 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor. In just one subsequent U.S. bombing raid on Tokyo, an estimated 100,000 civilians were killed and more than a million were rendered homeless. Vietnam is 7,000 miles from the U.S., but 100,000 to ...
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) – People in the world will not forget August 6 and 9 which marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US which took the lives of over 200,000 innocent civilians.
At Groves's request, a few Japanese cities had been spared the firebombing that had already ravaged Tokyo and other places precisely so that they could be used as pristine testbeds for both atomic explosions. One of Groves's own preferred targets, Kyoto, was vetoed by Secretary of War ...
Department of Defense has accounted for dozens of missing airmen killed in combat — and for each of them, there's a harrowing story of the their final moments. One servicemember from Michigan died on a World War II bombing mission in Southeast Asia when his plane was hit by anti-aircraft...
when President Bill Clinton was on the verge of bombing North Korea’s nuclear program in Yongbyon. Though it wasn’t clear whether Clinton intended to use low-level nuclear bombs, it was clear that bombing of nuclear facilities risked substantial radiation over a wide-area. Only the person...
Germany issues arrest warrant for Ukrainian suspected of bombing Nord Stream pipelines Germany’s chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man suspected of carrying out the bomb attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines nearly two years ago, according to German media reports. ...