With the dubious honour of being history’s deadliest bomber and the only aircraft to drop a nuclear weapon in combat, the B29 Superfortress is arguably the most important, and controversial, aircraft in human history. Its story is one of groundbreaking innovation, human daring, unimaginable destruction, and decisions that would dictate the course of the twentieth century. This is the B29 Superfortress.

Content Warning: distressing accounts of bombings and POW camps from survivors.

Read more about Britain’s history of nuclear weapons here: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/thehi...

Would you push the nuclear button?
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