The manhattan project

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history

Almost exactly 80 years ago, the world’s first atomic test explosion shattered the quiet of a New Mexico morning. A few weeks later, and in the space of a few days, nuclear weapons were dropped on Hir

The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction

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