They are warning local beachcombers to collect amber in tins, saying pieces of phosphorus dropped in incendiary bombs by the Allies in World War Two still wash up. White phosphorus burns at 1,300 ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ... combusted after yellow phosphorus inside it came in contact with ...

Can you imagine an 1,100-pound unexploded bomb being unearthed by construction crews breaking ground on a Manhattan ...

The scattering of phosphorus fire bombs over cities in World War II caused widespread death and destruction. In July 1943, Hamburg was subject to several air raids in which 25,000 phosphorus bombs ...

Ukraine has accused Russia of attacking the besieged city of Bakhmut with phosphorus munitions. In drone footage released by Ukraine's military, Bakhmut can be seen ablaze as what appears to be ...

Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday (December 18) that Ukraine had repeatedly dropped white phosphorus munitions from drones in September. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ...

White phosphorus is used in aircraft bombs, air-launched cluster munitions, artillery shells, mines, and in mixtures. Incendiary weapons are classified as conventional weapons, but the 3rd ...