This is the story of the sinking of the battleship Roma and the birth of precision guided weapons, known more commonly today as smart bombs. Federal prosecutors in N.Y. officially move to dismiss ...

At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in ... only 200 bodies were recovered and 76 identified. The sinking of the Maine, which had been in Havana since February ...