It looked like a nuclear bomb had simply flattened and vaporized the entire northern half of the airport.

Our bombs and incendiary weapons have flattened Iraqi cities and caused great civilian losses.

"If a nuclear bomb flattened this whole town, these pipes would still be hanging up there in the air."

It said a 10-kiloton bomb detonated in Lower Manhattan would kill 100,000 people, sicken 700,000 with radiation and flatten everything within a half-mile.

In that attack a bomb flattened the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, killing 20 people and injuring 80.

After an Israeli bomb flattened an eight-story apartment house, a Palestinian woman returned home to find her entire family buried in the rubble.

The bomb flattened his house, but Dr. Zahar, 58, was thrown clear and only slightly wounded, Palestinian witnesses said.

The bomb flattened a seven-story building next to the embassy, gutted most of the mission and broke windows for 10 blocks.

These bombs are circular or flattened in cross section, are fluted along their length, and have tabular vesicles.

The Aonae district in the south, where the Tadashis lived, looks like a bomb flattened it.