Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Development

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

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...

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

On 8 May 1945, Winston Churchill announced German armed forces had surrendered unconditionally. But, the World War ha...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and is among those who are credited with being the &#...