Seven Elements That Have Changed the World (39 page)

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The Hunt brothers: the last of the great silver moguls, 1980.

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The A-bomb dome dominates Hiroshima today: a legacy of an event that changed the world forever.

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A survivor of Hiroshima remembers. He was sixteen when the bomb was dropped.

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The fathers of nuclear horror: Oppenheimer and Groves by the remains of an atom bomb test, 1943.

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Atoms for peace. HM Queen Elizabeth II opens Calder Hall nuclear power plant in 1956.

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Captain Atom saves the world – again.

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‘We’ve got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it.’ UK’s nuclear deterrent, Blue Steel.

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Fukushima: the beginning of the end, 2011.

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Nuclear scientist Abdel Qadeer Khan at the inauguration of Pakistan’s Ghauri-II missile, 1999.

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‘These are people, not pieces of paper’ – Governor of Hiroshima, Hidehiko Yuzaki, 2012.

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Fit for any sky: Lockheed’s supersonic spy plane Blackbird, 1995.

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Titan of the seas: a titanium Project 705 Soviet submarine.

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A spectrum: Isaac Newton and John Wickins, Cambridge,
c
. 1754.

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Titanium in art and architecture – the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.