The new nuclear arms race

M.G. Sheftall

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

Techno-optimists have declared a nuclear renaissance

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

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

How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the atomic bomb, which culminated in the end of one war and the beginning of another