1940: Manchester Docks and Trafford Park bombed to bits by the Nazi war machine intent on destroying machinery, manufacturing and morale, but the people held fast.
2013: those days are remembered in the Imperial War Museum North, with its shards shaped to reflect the three theatres of war: land, sea and air.
In remembrance during the week leading up to Remembrance Day.
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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