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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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The psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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The sum of my parts

Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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  • A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • An old lady is startled by exploding bombs on which are written 'Germany', 'France', 'Russia', 'Great Britain' and 'Austria Hungary'. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Berthelot's calorimetric bomb: cross section.
  • You and the bomb / Nuclear Free Local Authorities.
  • You and the bomb / Nuclear Free Local Authorities.
  • Illustration of a fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb.
  • Illustration of a fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb.
  • Illustration of a fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb.
  • St Charles Hospital, London: building damaged by bomb. Photograph, 1940.
  • Nettuno, Italy: an explosion of white smoke caused by a smoke bomb. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
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