DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki capped six years of top-secret work by scientists from Europe and North America. Here is an overview of how that process unfolded. Einstein warning In 1939, Albert Einstein signs a letter warning US president Franklin D. Roosevelt of the destructive potential of nuclear fission, which was discovered by […]https://www.defencetalk.com/from-manhattan-to-hiroshima-the-race-for-the-atom-bomb-76123/

DefenceTalkFiji soldiers exposed to radiation during British nuclear tests in the Pacific more than 56 years ago are finally to receive compensation, a government minister was reported as saying Tuesday. More than 70 military personnel, unaware of the mission they were on, were deployed from the then-British colony of Fiji to Christmas Island, now part […]https://www.defencetalk.com/payout-for-fiji-veterans-of-british-atomic-tests-62246/