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Exterior of Ted Kaczynski's Cabin.
Washington, D.C.

The Unabomber's Cabin

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Heligoland (foreground) and Düne beyond.
Heligoland, Germany

Heligoland

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.
The head of Virgin Mary.
Nagasaki, Japan

Head of the Virgin Mary

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.
Museum exhibition and a clock that stopped when the bomb dropped.
Nagasaki, Japan

Atomic Bomb Medical Museum

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
TEPCO workers overlook the Fukushima site in 2013.
nuclear

A WWII Bomb Has Been Found at the Fukushima Nuclear Site

As if they didn't have enough to worry about.
Eric Grundhauser August 10, 2017
This is a time capsule.
news

Found: A Buried Bomb That Was Actually a Hip ‘80s Time Capsule

It looks a lot like a bomb.
Sarah Laskow July 6, 2017
A plane from the movie "The Dambusters," based on the true story of Operation Chastise, flies over Coventry Airport.
war history

For Sale: A Button That Helped Change World War II

Bomber release buttons were the final push—literally—in the 1943 Dambusters raid.
Cara Giaimo June 27, 2017
Charlotte Serber, Los Alamos ID photo .
libraries

The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project's Secrets

While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible.
Michael Waters June 23, 2017
nazis

A Live Nazi Artillery Shell Was Recently Found—in a Shed in Idaho

No one is quite sure how it got there.
Erik Shilling June 6, 2017
Bomb damage and bullet holes at Hickam Air Force Base.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

Hickam Air Base Scars

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
A warning sign at the site.
Parachute, Colorado

Rulison Nuclear Test Site

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
The Berm, Western Sahara
Mauritania

Moroccan Western Sahara Wall

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.
Yellow dashes mark the old tunnel
Washington, D.C.

FDR's Bomb Shelter

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.
A practice (inert) bomb is bounced during a training flight by members of RAF 617 Squadron at Reculver bombing range in Kent.
found

A Piece of a WWII 'Bouncing Bomb' Washed Up on an English Beach

It was just for practice.
Samir S. Patel March 31, 2017
nuclear

Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to YouTube

Mushroom clouds galore.
Erik Shilling March 16, 2017
The two grenades.
bombs

These Two WWII-Era Grenades Were Found in a 91-Year-Old's Refrigerator

A Rockland County, New York, bomb squad eventually cleared the scene.
Erik Shilling February 27, 2017
Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood in Goleta, California.
Goleta, California

Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.
Strategic Air Command headquarters in the 1960s.
nuclear

In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms

They were simple-looking white canisters.
Sarah Laskow January 11, 2017