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The 'Trinity' atomic bomb test at a remote spot in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945. The test was part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. The explosion was equal to 18,600 tons of TNT, and it...

The Enola Gay on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in the final stages of the Second World War...

A photograph of the Italian scientist Enrico Fermi who contributed to the Manhattan Project and the development of an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45). Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Bockscar' with a replica of the atomic bomb 'Fat Boy' it dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45). (National Museum of the United States...

Colonel Leslie R. Groves (later promoted to Lieutenant General), a military engineer who was put in overall charge of the secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb during WWII. On the right is the physicist Robert...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Manhattan Project (the Trinity Test) by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The Trinity test was the first detonation...

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933. He gained power by making popular promises like improving Germany's economy and status in Europe, but when he took these policies too far, he was responsible more...

Pompeii was a large Roman town in Campania, Italy which was buried in volcanic ash following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Excavated in the 19th-20th century, its excellent state of preservation gives an invaluable insight into...

In ancient China warfare was a means for one region to gain ascendancy over another, for the state to expand and protect its frontiers, and for usurpers to replace an existing dynasty of rulers. With armies consisting of...

Belgian Congo was a colony of Belgium from 1908 until 1960. Prior to that, the region had been the Congo Free State (created in 1885), which was effectively a private enterprise of King Leopold II...