The 3,000-ton Mont Blanc disintegrated in the detonation and debris rained down from the sky. A 1,100-pound anchor fragment landed more than 2 miles away. One of the vessel's guns was tossed nearly ...

THE TOWN THAT DIED (192 pp.)—Michael J. Bird—Putnam ($3.95). A mushroom-shaped cloud with a massive fireball rose 12,000 ft. in the air. In the city beneath, buildings of all sizes and materials were ...

A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead lives dramatically different from those of the people who survived the ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Somber ceremonies are taking place in Halifax to mark 100 years since the Canadian port city on the Atlantic coast was devastated by a wartime blast that killed ...

Steve Inskeep talks with author John U. Bacon about a ship collision and explosion during World War I that's been called "the world's first weapon... 100 Years After The Great Halifax Explosion STEVE ...

On the morning of December 6, 1917, the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, witnessed the largest and most destructive man-made explosion the world had seen to that day. The S.S. Imo, a Norwegian vessel ...