In the tense early years of the Cold War, governments around the world were frantically making plans about what to do in the ...

Iron, and mining for the mineral, has defined Wharton, New Jersey, for much of its history — since even before the town was named.

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Deputy Director Mary Wareham and Laura Lodenius, Executive Director at Peace Union of Finland, discuss the grave ...

SADO, Niigata Prefecture--Two separate memorial services honoring those who worked in Sado Island’s gold mines during World War II were held here after the South Korean government’s last ...

Bombs, landmines, ammunition — the deadly legacy of war 06/04/2025 June 4, 2025. As the German city of Cologne evacuated some 20,000 people to defuse three World War II bombs, DW looks at the ...

As official U.S. government aid to Ukraine dries up, private citizens from America and around the world are stepping into the breach — sometimes at the ultimate cost.

In May 1943, much of the world was embroiled in World War II. ... Typically, these mines had slipped their moorings and floated freely at the whim of the currents.

Long before modern explosives became common on the battlefield, Confederate forces in the American Civil War deployed a weapon that changed the face of warfare—landmines. In this educational ...

The war involved one of the largest aerial bombing campaigns in history, with the US dropping double the tonnage of explosives on Vietnam than were dropped by all of the allies during World War II.