Atoms and atomisation

Nuclear weapons in a fracturing world.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Missions, FS Gosling, US Department of Energy History Division, Washington DC.

Welcome to this week’s Not in Dispatches, where this week we take a look at nuclear weapons.

It’s timely to do so. Oppenheimer, which follows the history of American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, has just cleaned up at the Oscars, winning se…