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Photo of artist taken from below holding critical assembly (Credit: Ben Platts-Mills)
Nuclear

The illustration of an atomic mishap

By Ben Platts-Mills

Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer, and what did he believe? (Credit: Getty Images)
Nuclear

Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer?

By Ben Platts-Mills
Ivan Rusev has been logging the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on the cetaceans of the Black Sea (Credit: Getty Images)
Ocean

The dolphins dying in the Ukraine war

By Alix Kroeger
The threat of nuclear war looms over the invasion of Ukraine (Credit: Diego Herrera/Getty Images)
Nuclear

What is the risk of nuclear war?

By Seth Baum
In the wake of the Aum Shinrikyo attack (Credit: Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images)
Comment & Analysis

Why 'Agents of Doom' threaten the world

By Luke Kemp
A nuclear training exercise at Volk air base (Credit: Alamy)
Nuclear

The mistakes that nearly caused WW3

By Zaria Gorvett
Soviet soldiers participate in a military exercise in the early 1980s (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth

The war game that almost caused WWIII

By Richard Hollingham
A MiG-15 at an air show (Credit: Alamy)
Military

MiG: The USSR's most feared warplanes

Elizebeth Friedman (Credit: SPL)
In Depth

The untold tales of code-breaking women

By Chris Baraniuk
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Britain

Inside a secret wind tunnel

Volunteers have recreated what one train coming up the tunnel would have looked like here (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri)
Britain

The UK’s hidden underground ‘fortress’

By Amanda Ruggeri
As part of the scenario training, role-playing instructors fire blanks from firearms to simulate a possible emergency situation (Credit: Chris Baraniuk)
In Depth

Who guards nuclear plants from attacks?

By Chris Baraniuk
Nestled in the foothills of the Cairngorms, Drumintoul Lodge seems a surprising location for a World War Two commando school (Credit: Alamy)
Britain

The Scottish school for secret agents

By Amanda Ruggeri
(Credit: William Park)
Britain

The secret ‘shadow factories’ of WWII

By William Park
One of the 15,000 Nazi bunkers built from the Spanish border to northern Norway - an extensive line of coastal defences known as the 'Atlantikwall' (Credit: Jason Guilbeau)
Military

The surprising beauty of WWII bunkers

By Olivia Howitt / Images by Jason Guilbeau
(Credit: Science Museum/SSPL)
Britain

How a bloody war eventually saved lives

By Amanda Ruggeri