Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

In a little-known WWII campaign, Japan sent bomb-laden balloons across the Pacific. Some made it—and caused deadly ...

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Age, with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on ...

In 1940, with Nazi bombers looming over British cities and the threat of invasion ever-present, Frisch and Peierls’ findings ...

The era of British atomic tests on West Australian soil has had enduring fallout. Now, the descendants of the servicemen ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and ...

Readers who grew up during the Cold War will remember sombre public information films which warned of the dangers and horrors ...

Thousands of people are losing their fear of speaking out because it’s plain to see that Palestine Action supporters are not ...

FOR more than 60 years, good management and good fortune have meant that nuclear arsenals have not been used. But we cannot ...

A visitor looks at a picture of Hiroshima devastated by the world’s first atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...

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