August 2005

Articles from the August 2005 issue of BBC History Magazine

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

Ruins of Hiroshima shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb. (US Air Force/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Alien spaceship landing on rural road

The secret search for aliens