Driven by desperation in the waning months of the Second World War – and motivated by a martial code, bushido, that glorified…
From the beginning, Okinawa challenged expectations. The landing was supposed to be the bloodiest of the war so far. The 182,000 troops…
‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…