‘emily’ wrecked november 1943

V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

DEFENSE

Named after Medal of Honor recipient Admiral Frank Fletcher, this class became the most prolific and longest-serving of any naval destroyer

Originally supplanting paratroops as a means of delivering soldiers precisely onto the battlefield, air assault became the standard for strategic planning in the Cold War. But as air threats have escalated, has peer-on-peer conflict made the tactic obsolete?

Today, the ocean liner is often considered a glamorous yet thoroughly outdated form of transport. While ships such as the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania remain household names, their lesser-known c

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