Planes were a very new invention, they were rare and fragile. But when World War One started they became weapons. Pilots could spy on enemy targets and the first bombs were dropped from the air.

The owner of this live WWI shell kept it on his mantlepice for five years A man has discovered he had a live mortar bomb from World War One sitting on his mantelpiece for five years, police have ...

Staff were evacuated from the area on Thursday and the bomb squad arrived to remove the live "British WW1 fuse" and blow it up in a nearby farmer's field. The charity said: "We're normally ...

Russian forces have been accused of resorting to World War I-era chemical weapons, specifically deploying "K-51 grenades with chloropicrin," according to a top think-tank. The Institute for the ...

And as the war progressed the conflict demonstrated how difficult it would be for either side to use atomic bombs decisively in battle. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl ...

From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped 4 billion bombs on Laos. To this day, the country holds the dubious distinction of being the most heavily bombed neutral country in history. 580,000 bombing ...