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Penney

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

11 October 2017

William Penney planned the Nagasaki bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, and kept the UK in the nuclear race. But was he a master of bluffing or a master spy?
Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

23 April 1987

In casting through the British newspapers from the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, the world's most disastrous nuclear accident, disarray was clear, but not all of it was in the Soviet Union

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