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ML407 1944
The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
Roll Out 7
A fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...
Vulcan Restoration
In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...
XM607
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
AERE-Bus-c-Brian-Matthews
January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946_signing
Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...
1024px-Bockscar_050809-F-1234P-003 Source-United States Force museum
The Potsdam Conference was held near Berlin on 17 July 1945, the day after the Trinity test, and was to run until 2 A...
Trinity_-_Jumbo_brought_to_site
On 8 May 1945, Winston Churchill announced German armed forces had surrendered unconditionally. But, the World War ha...
B Reactor, Hanford, Washington
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and is among those who are credited with being the &#...
Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view
On 2 August 1939, the US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, received a letter written by Leó Szilárd, a Hungarian-Germ...