NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
Mar 19, 2020
2 minutes
Words by Scott Dutfield
Ever since the atom was split in 1917 by physicist Ernest Rutherford, scientists and military engineers alike have worked to weaponise science, culminating in some of the most devastating attacks in human history.
In 1945, two American atomic bombs, dubbed ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’, were devastatingly dropped on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking
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