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An amusing (though historically significant) misunderstanding from Brian Cathcart’s “Test of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atomic Bomb” “For security reasons the Manhattan Project had been ‘compartmentalized’ and as a result,…
Nuclear angst was a staple for those who were old enough to be aware of the oft-trumpeted apocalyptic threat in the 1980s. In the 1990s it became a lot less…
As featured on the BBC website… I am well aware of the moral issues pointed out by the the third commentator here. Perhaps the somewhat arch tone passed him by, and the mockery…
Séamus Sweeney 