This is a public announcement from Harry Pearce of MI5.
We have seized all details of New Manchester Walks’ Spies & Spooks tours on grounds of national security and refuse to reveal any details of this event, apart from the fact that it is taking place on Wednesday 26 November 2014, starting at 3pm, possibly from the Visitor Centre, and will be led by a man who could well be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure at the end of the tour for…well, we’ll find something.
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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