quality:corruption, structural:reformatting
Post-World War II

In 1989, the United States Department of Defense revealed the loss of a one-megaton nuclear bomb in the Philippine Sea during the 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident.

Following an escalation of the Spratly Islands dispute in 2011, various Philippine government agencies started using the designation " West Philippine Sea " to refer to parts of the South China Sea. However, a PAGASA spokesperson said that the sea east of the Philippine archipelago will continue to be called the Philippine Sea.