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The Lake of Jade
Trinitite, the green glassy substance created by the world's first nuclear detonation.
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4 years, 7 months ago
Purple Fire
The bombing of Nagasaki
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4 years, 7 months ago
Kokura's Luck
The flight of Bockscar from Tinian to its rendezvous point, and then onwards to the primary nuclear target: Kokura. Why did the city escape nuclear d…
4 years, 8 months ago
A Vixen on a Feather Bed
The series of 'minor' nuclear experiments in Australia known as Vixens. They were small and sub-critical, but threw contamination over the Maralinga …
4 years, 8 months ago
Four Minutes of Threads, Part XII
Another four minutes of the greatest nuclear war film. In this week's segment, the bomb drops. Attack Warning Red!
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4 years, 8 months ago
Willy Wonka's Nuclear Factories
What sweet treats lay within Britain's buffer depots?
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4 years, 11 months ago
Sound An Alarm
The 1971 film 'Sound An Alarm', looking at the work of the UKWMO.
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4 years, 11 months ago
Four Minutes of Threads, Part XI
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4 years, 11 months ago
The NHS and Nuclear War
Another short extract from the book about the health service's plans for nuclear war.
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5 years ago
Royal Observer Corps
A short extract from my upcoming book. I explore an ROC Monitoring Post and describe the work of the Corps during the Blitz and the Cold War.
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5 years ago