| HIROSHIMA | A port on South West Honshu, Japan, largely destroyed by the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare (9) |
| OKAYAMA | A city in Southwest Japan, on West Honshu on the Inland Sea (7) |
| ENOLAGAY | B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war |
| NYIRAGONGO | Active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. In 2002 the city of Goma was largely destroyed by its lava, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless and creating a refugee crisis. (10 |
| ROTTERDAM | Largely destroyed in the Second World War, which of the Netherlands' cities was chartered in the 14th century and is now one of the largest ports in the world? (9) |
| KOBE | Port on South Honshu on Osaka Bay in Japan (4) |
| ENOLA | ____ Gay, name of the U.S. bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb in 1945 (5) |
| STLO | City largely destroyed by the Battle of Normandy |
| CAEN | Town largely destroyed by the Battle of Normandy |
| HOOKOFHOLLAND | Port on cape on south-west coast of the Netherlands (4,2,7) |
| CUZCO | South American city largely destroyed by a 1950 earthquake |
| DRESDEN | Capital of Saxony largely destroyed in a firestorm by British and American bombers in 1945 (7) |
| LITTLEBOY | What was the codename for the first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima? (6,3) |
| OPPENHEIMER | J Robert ?, 1943-45 director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the first atomic bomb |
| LOSALAMOS | New Mexico town which was the site of research for the first atomic bomb (3,6) |
| VIPERISH | Malicious flying bomb to be destroyed |
| AGNOSTIC | Costing a bomb to be sceptical (8) |
| AGADIR | Moroccan city largely destroyed by earthquakes in 1960 |
| HARWELL | Site 12 miles south of Oxford, where the first atomic pile in England was created (7) |
| STRETE | Devon village on South West Coast Path - in lacklustre terrain (6) |
