1.   The first bomb exploded with a blinding crack that swayed the truck on its springs.

2.   The first bomb exploded with a blinding flash.

3.   The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany, has reached the final day in its long history.

4.   One of its team accidently dropped the very first bomb on Nazi Germany.

5.   There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb, destroying a church hall or a GAA club.

6.   And so, shortly before the first bombs dropped on Afghanistan, an inevitable conflict of constitutional responsibility burst into the open.

7.   Before the first bomb is even dropped on Iraq, congressional leaders are telling the Clinton administration what it should do after that.

8.   Because the Germans were believed to have their own active A-bomb program, the Military Policy Committee was reluctant to use the first U.S. bomb against German forces.

9.   A few hours after NATO dropped its first bombs on Serbia, armed Serbs surrounded Bela Crkva, a village in southwest Kosovo.

10.   After the explosion of the first bomb, the survivors fled toward nearby fields, Urimeraj said.