| HIROSHIMA | City destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945 (9) |
| NAGASAKI | Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945 (8) |
| FRANCISCO | Californian city destroyed by an earthquake in 1906, San ... |
| ENOLA | ____ Gay, plane that was the first to drop an atomic bomb in warfare, in 1945 (5) |
| LISBON | Capital city destroyed by an earthquake in 1755 (6) |
| POMPEII | Ancient city destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius (7) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Pacific, site of an atomic-bomb test in 1946 (6) |
| NUKING | Attacking with an atomic bomb (informal) |
| URANIUM | Chemical element that was the basis of an atomic bomb |
| FOGGIA | City in Puglia, Italy, partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1731 (6) |
| PHAROS | Lighthouse built on an island off Alexandria in Egypt, destroyed by an earthquake in the 14c (6) |
| MANAGUA | Which city in Nicaragua was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1972? (7) |
| AGADIR | Port in southwest Morocco almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 (6) |
| KLAUS | and 1ac, Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| FUCHS | Klaus ?, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| UNEVEN | Rough venue destroyed by an unknown number (6) |
| ONFIRE | Being destroyed by an arsonist |
| COLOSSUS | --- of Rhodes, a giant bronze statue destroyed by an earthquake (8) |
| ASSENTS | Agrees the nest was destroyed by an animal (7) |
| OSHEA | Charles Stewart Parnell's political career was destroyed by an affair with whom? (5) |
