The deadly race

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

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

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

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

Nearly 30 years after giving them up, the RAF is poised to reacquire air-dropped nuclear weapons

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