Historical

The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...

A fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...

In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...

No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...

With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...

William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...

January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...

Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...

The Potsdam Conference was held near Berlin on 17 July 1945, the day after the Trinity test, and was to run until 2 A...