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V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

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

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

The Royal Air Force was formed in the last year of the First World War. And by the time that the guns fell silent at the end of the Second World War, it had grown to almost one million serving personn

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?

At the end of WWII the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in Southeast Asia