A hydrogen bomb—the type North Korea claims it tested—is many magnitudes more powerful than an atomic bomb, which was the type dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, killing 70,000.

Last week Washington newsmen tried to get beyond the curtain of hand-wringing and eye-rolling to establish some measure of the H-bomb’s magnitude. The TNT blockbuster of World War II ...

WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world. documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the ...

One sitcom legend was left startled when an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered in his flat. Hi-de-Hi! actor Barry Howard, who shot to fame as ballroom dancer Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in ...

A World War II bomb was defused in the western German city of Hanau on Wednesday. "The bomb has been defused," authorities announced on the city's website at around 2 pm (1300 GMT). An evacuation ...

The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said. The chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping ...