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

Rolls-Royce and others become involved… In January 1940, Whittle had met Dr. Stanley Hooker of Rolls-Royce, ...

In January 1936, when the Power Jets company was created, Henry Tizard, the rector of Imperial College London and cha...

In March 2019, the Vulcan to the Sky Trust were privileged to organise a special evening in the wonderful surrounding...

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

On 16 July 1945, with the support of Britain, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic weapon. In August ...

On 3 October 1952, Britain detonated their first atomic bomb.  Due to the small size and high-density populat...

1949 – While Britain raced towards their first nuclear weapon, Russia was also advanced in their building of a ...

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...