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Poor WILSON!!

Yes, terrible when the opposition is awarded a contentious decision by a referee not from your hemisphere isn't it Wallabies British & Irish Lions m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzNfu…

'In an era where nuclear rhetoric once again creeps into global headlines, this book could not be more urgent. MacGregor’s work does not just revisit history; it demands reflection on our present.' WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk bestreviewsclub.com/the-hiroshima-…

#OTD Tucked away in their heavily guarded section of the XX BG airbase, on the island of #Tinian in the Marianas chain, technicians from the #ManhattanProject begin stage 1 of the assembly of 'Little Boy' uranium gun-type bomb delivered by the USS Indianapolis. #TheHiroshimaMen

Looking forward to this on 7 August : ⁦WaterstonesTenterden⁩ The Hiroshima Men, with author Iain MacGregor | Events at Waterstones Bookshops waterstones.com/events/talk-th…

One month until Elodie Harper's #BoudiccasDaughter is here! ⌛ Pre-order to secure your @Goldsborobooks special edition: bit.ly/43YdfZt

Spanish CL 215T anti-wildfire aircraft collecting water - cockpit POV #avgeek #wildfires #Canadair 🤯Holy shit, I'd probably be able to refill the aircraft with just my sweat if I was anywhere near that cockpit.

Very much enjoyed talking to James Holland and Al Murray 🇺🇦 this morning on the #ManhattanProject, General Leslie Groves, #Oppenheimer, #PaulTibbets, #EnolaGay & all things #Hiroshima Look out for 1st episode on 7 August. Goalhanger WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk Little, Brown UK Scribner

Journalist Caroline Alexander uncovers the stories of those who flew ‘the Hump’ – a little-known Allied supply mission that sent young pilots into uncharted skies – and toward a jungle so terrifying, any other fate seemed preferable bit.ly/4kSHHcr

#OTD 1945 The USS Indianapolis sailing unescorted back from Tinian having delivered parts of the atomic bomb, was sunk by Japanese torpedoes. 800+ survivors in the water, only 316 survived shark attacks, dehydration & hypothermia. #TheHiroshimaMen

My wife endured this through her pregnancy and a few days afterwards, too. Hospitalised at one point. ☹️ Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’ | Pregnancy | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

⁦Iain_MacGregor1 (@iainmacgregor1.bsky.social)⁩. Warning to readers, start reading and you will find it hard to put down. Compelling, ‘memory and emotion’ to the fore, absorbing, upsetting and seen through the eyes of 4 contrasting individuals. Thank you Iain.

Friday brings a good review in the ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ 👍🏻👏🏻 #TheHiroshimaMen Two Books on the Bomb and the Men Who Built It - WSJ ⁦Regal | Hoffmann & Associates⁩ ⁦Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency⁩ wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

#OTD 1945 Col Tibbets & navigator Maj Ferebee meet with Gen Curtis LeMay at XX BC HQ on Guam to confirm the atomic target. "Paul, the primary’s Hiroshima.” Tibbets provided an immediate response: “I’ve always preferred it as the target.” WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk History Hit💥 Scribner

Just brilliant.

Surreal sky on a wander through Fitzrovia this morning.

So pleased with Frank Coughlan's assessment of ##TheHiroshimaMen in Irish Independent 'A daunting if compelling read.' Dublin Festival of History Scribner Frank Coughlan: The last survivors of Hiroshima have lessons for us 80 years on – we should listen to them independent.ie/opinion/commen…

#Hiroshima may well have quickened the war's end and saved millions of lives. But it came at a price. My piece in The Spectator Scribner Little, Brown UK WaterstonesTenterden The Rest Is History 'How did the Enola Gay’s crew live with bombing Hiroshima?' spectator.co.uk/article/how-di…

Good interview this morning. BBC Radio Scotland - The Sunday Show, 03/08/2025 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Checking out victims of lightning strikes in our local Sydenham Woods.