Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...
'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson makes feelings clear on 'city killer' asteroid with 600x power of Hiroshima bomb
If the asteroid hit our planet, Tyson predicted the blast would be equivalent to 8-10 megatons or around 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War Two. LATEST ...
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Diverted American Airlines flight escorted by Italian fighter jets after 'bomb threat'
An American Airlines flight travelling from New York to New Delhi was diverted midair due to a "bomb threat". Flight 292 landed at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport "due to a ...
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Why the atomic bomb didn’t really end the Second World War
It was Aug­ust 14 1945, eight and five days ­(respectively) after atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiro­shima and Nagasaki. Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, was about to ­announce the end of ...
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Man survived the two worst atomic bombs in history just days apart that killed almost 250,000 people
US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan’s surrender by dropping two atomic bombs, nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the morning of ...
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Bombs Explode in Israel on Empty Buses in Suspected Terrorist Attack
Bombs detonated on empty buses at two locations near Tel Aviv, in what police said they were investigating as a suspected terrorist attack. No casualties were reported from the blasts. Israeli ...
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Massive attack averted: Bombs found on five buses in central Israel
Numerous police forces are at the scenes of the explosions, searching for suspects. Police bomb disposal experts are scanning for additional suspicious objects." Police Commissioner Daniel Levy ...
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Bomb threat at Kennedy Center cleared; Shen Yun shows to go on
A bomb threat at the Kennedy Center caused evacuations and road closures Thursday afternoon. The threat targeted Shen Yun performances. Police closed off Rock Creek Parkway, blocking lanes between ...
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Chinese scientists make discovery that could help people survive nuclear fallout
The atomic bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the second world war killed at least 100,000, many as a result of the fallout from the blasts. 23:42 Nuclear waste storage plans ...
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Two teenage girls busted for plotting to shoot up, bomb Texas high school in ‘mass casualty attack’: FBI
Two teenage girls from Texas were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly plotting to shoot up and bomb a Houston high school in a “mass casualty attack,” according to local authorities and the ...
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Bill Gates says younger generations should worry about "four things far scarier than atomic bombs"
Bill Gates says that if he were young again, he would be afraid of more than just atomic bombs. "There are, you know, about four or five things that are very scary, and the only one that I understood ...