Britain and the Bomb: Technology, Culture and the Cold War

This is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country than is seen today. The maturing Cold War engineers of the British aviation industry sought to outdo the nationally-celebrated and frankly propagandised achievements of their fathers’ generation. Meanwhile, black and white post-war austerity was being replaced by the colour and rhythms of the swinging sixties.

Britain and the Bomb tells one of the great Briti...