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