In November 1952, the United States carried out one of the most significant and terrifying weapons tests in human history during Operation Ivy. The device, known as Ivy Mike, was the world’s first ...

In November 1955, the Soviet Union carried out the world’s first successful air-dropped test of a true two-stage hydrogen bomb, but the mission came dangerously close to disaster before it ever became ...

&ZeroWidthSpaceSquadron Leader Terry Hilliard, who has died aged 93, flew his Canberra jet bomber to Australia in 1958 to take part in a series of tests of Britain’s first hydrogen bomb and was tasked ...