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How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the at
Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the Trin
Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom
This lightweight General Service Mk V device could immobilise Hitler’s heavy tanks and was used during fighting in Northwest Europe
China’s rising status as a nuclear power should keep Russia and its threats to use weapons of mass destruction in check, experts tell Newsweek
Glasgow, 1942. The Carl Rosa Opera Company was in town to perform Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Tickets had been snapped up by local people – including many who didn’t really know what an opera was. The
Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the