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Explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw following the Japanese attack on the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941. US National Archives and Records Administration.

A photograph showing an explosion caused by a Soviet booby-trap mine after Axis soldiers occupied Kiev in the Ukraine after the battle of Kiev in 1941. The battle was a major Axis victory during Operation Barbarossa in the...

Premature explosion of the bridge at the Battle of Leipzig, which stranded tens of thousands of French troops in the city, 19 October 1813. Lithograph by Carle Vernet, 19th century.

Explosion of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, oil on canvas by George Arnald, c. 1825. National Maritime Museum, London.

The 'Trinity' atomic bomb test at a remote spot in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945. The test was part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. The explosion was equal to 18,600 tons of TNT, and it...

The explosion onboard USS Princeton on 28 February 1844, hand-colored lithograph by N. Currier, 1844. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Siege of Fort Erie (4 August to 21 September 1814) was one of the last major military operations of the War of 1812. Following the bloody Battle of Lundy's Lane, a US army retreated into Fort Erie, where it was soon besieged...

The Manhattan Project was the code name for the secret US-led programme to develop an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45). Hugely expensive and employing the best scientific minds from Europe...

RMS Lusitania was a British transatlantic liner infamously sunk by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 during the First World War (1914-18). Struck off the coast of southern Ireland, the ship sank in less than 20 minutes...

The Battle of York (27 April 1813) was a major battle in the War of 1812. It saw an American army, under Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, defeat a British, Canadian, and Ojibwe force to seize York (present-day Toronto), the capital...