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Destroyer of Worlds: the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

July 15, 2015
14 mins read

‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

Back to the Drawing Board – Aunt Jemima

June 12, 2012
1 min read

The brief was simple: create an explosive device which is easy to carry and innocent in appearance. No sticks of dynamite, no

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Weapons Technology

WMD – THE FERRET SCOUT CAR

May 11, 2012
2 mins read
4

Eric Bryan recalls a long-serving stalwart of British military reconnaissance. In 1949, the British Army approached Daimler to upgrade its World War

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology/WWII

Back to the Drawing Board — EXPLODING RATS!

February 15, 2012
2 mins read
4

Exploding Rats By 1941, Germany had already subjugated half of Europe, the Luftwaffe was raining bombs down on the cities of Britain,

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

The Spruce Goose – Back to the drawing board

October 7, 2011
3 mins read

Howard Hughes surely defined the word eccentric. One of the richest men in the world, he was famous for his maverick movie-making, addiction to

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

The Davy Crockett – Back to the drawing board

September 8, 2011
2 mins read

  Few weapons in this series have been sent back to the drawing board because of their efficiency. This page is usually

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

The Tumbleweed Tank – Back to the drawing board

August 11, 2011
2 mins read

We and all nations have a sense that we have come to the turning-point of an age,’ said Adolf Hitler in a

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

The Rotabuggy – Back to the drawing board

July 4, 2011
2 mins read
1

In 1965, when the latest Ian Fleming novel was published, the world once again marvelled at James Bond’s futuristic gadgets: the Solar

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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern/Weapons Technology

Bat Bombs – Back to the drawing board

June 7, 2011
2 mins read
2

Even as the Soviet Union’s terrified tank dogs were hiding from the Panzers, and just before B F Skinner’s poor pigeons were

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Modern/Weapons Technology/WWI

Machine Gun on the Western Front

April 14, 2011
2 mins read
5

Imperial War Museum curator Paul Cornish discusses the machine gun, the iconic weapon of the First World War trenches.

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