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With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
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William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021
On 9 January 1941, Avro test pilot, Captain Harry “Sam” Brown, made the first flight of the prototype Lancaster, BT30...
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January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
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Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...
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