The city is essentially a Victorian creation. This was when Manchester was a new phenomenon that shocked the world – an unprecedented commercially and industrial metropolis. It attracted the great names of the era – Prince Albert, Richard Cobden, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Gladstone, William Morris, John Ruskin … – who came here to marvel, complain, pontificate, protest and make money.
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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