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Twenty-one days before the world learned of the atomic bomb through its wartime use against Japan, a team of scientists detonated the first nuclear device in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert, in an operation codenamed Trinity.
This expertly curated journey through the beginning of the Atomic Age explores the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualised and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s legacy collections – some just declassified.
This issue, three lucky winners will each receive a copy of the book, courtesy of the University of Chicago Press. To find out more about the publisher, please visit the website https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html.
For a chance of winning, simply answer the following question:
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Our caption competition continues online. Find out more at http://www.military-history.org.
CROSSWORD
Across
8 Royal Navy frigate launched in 1962, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn (6)
9 Confederate Navy warship sunk off Cherbourg, France, in June 1864 (7)
10 Narrow sword used for duelling or fencing (4)
11 Opponents of the Cavaliers in the English Civil War (10)
12 Heavy cavalryman wearing an armoured breastplate (10)
14 Albert ___, Royal Flying Corps pilot awarded the VC posthumously in 1917 (4)
15 William ___, US Marine Corps brigadier general and last commander of the North China Marine Detachment (7)
17 Battle fought in AD 613 in Syria, where the Byzantines were defeated by the Persians (7)
20 Zulu ___, film (1979) in which Peter O’Toole played the British general
Lord Chelmsford (4)
22 US Navy airship destroyed in a storm over Ohio in September 1925 (10)
24 Battle of the War of the Spanish Succession (10)
26 British general, appointed commander of VII Corps in 1915 (4)
27 Aircraft known informally as the ‘jump jet’ (7)
28 Iranian city besieged by Iraqi forces from November 1980 to September 1981 (6)
Down
1 US term for light sub-machine guns (4,4)
2 Royal Navy King George V-class battleship commissioned in August 1942 (4)
3 British flying boat built by Supermarine, active from the 1930s to the 1950s (6)
4 Russian general, commander of the South-West Front at Stalingrad (7)
5 ___ Bridge, battle of the Mexican War of Independence fought in January 1811 (8)
6 Pacific island attacked by Japanese forces in December 1941 (4)
7 Member of a Germanic people who invaded Spain (6)
13 French city which surrendered to Henry V in January 1419 (5)
14 David ___, British general, wounded at the Battle of Corunna (5)
16 Middle Eastern empire victorious over the Parthians in AD 224 at the Battle of Hormozdgan (8)
18 Conflict fought between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1932-1935 (5,3)
19 André ___, French general and author of An Introduction to Strategy (1963) (7)
21 Native American tribe of the American Southwest (6)
23 Robert ___, film director whose work includes M*A*S*H (6)
25 Informal term for a British airborne soldier (4)
26 Red ___, Arikara scout who served with Custer in the Little Bighorn campaign (4)
ANSWERS
Across: 8 Aurora, 9 Alabama, 10 Épée, 11 Roundheads, 12 Cuirassier, 14 Ball, 15 Ashurst, 17 Antioch, 20 Dawn, 22 Shenandoah, 24 Malplaquet, 26 Snow, 27 Harrier, 28 Abadan.
Down: 1 Burp guns, 2 Howe, 3 Walrus, 4 Vatutin, 5 Calderon, 6 Wake, 7 Vandal, 13 Rouen, 14 Baird, 16 Sassanid, 18 Chaco War, 19 Beaufre, 21 Apache, 23 Altman, 25 Para, 26 Star.
