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MATTHEW JONES is impressed by a new account of the Manhattan Project that

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BBC History Magazine

6 August 2025

How It Works

A new era of nuclear warfare

How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the atomic bomb, which culminated in the end of one war and the beginning of another

BBC History Magazine

The lost mayor of hiroshima

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

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“my god, what have we done?”: dropping the atomic bomb

Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dead. As the 80th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Stephen Walker, one of the last writers to interview them, revisits what they told him

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V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

BBC History Magazine

We don’t talk about the war in asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict

Matt Elton Your new series, exploring fighting on the Asian front during the Second World War, is called The History Podcast: The Second Map. Why did you choose that name? Kavita Puri It came to me af