‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
The brief was simple: create an explosive device which is easy to carry and innocent in appearance. No sticks of dynamite, no…
Eric Bryan recalls a long-serving stalwart of British military reconnaissance. In 1949, the British Army approached Daimler to upgrade its World War…
Exploding Rats By 1941, Germany had already subjugated half of Europe, the Luftwaffe was raining bombs down on the cities of Britain,…
Howard Hughes surely defined the word eccentric. One of the richest men in the world, he was famous for his maverick movie-making, addiction to…
Few weapons in this series have been sent back to the drawing board because of their efficiency. This page is usually…
We and all nations have a sense that we have come to the turning-point of an age,’ said Adolf Hitler in a…
In 1965, when the latest Ian Fleming novel was published, the world once again marvelled at James Bond’s futuristic gadgets: the Solar…
Even as the Soviet Union’s terrified tank dogs were hiding from the Panzers, and just before B F Skinner’s poor pigeons were…
Imperial War Museum curator Paul Cornish discusses the machine gun, the iconic weapon of the First World War trenches.…