So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany, it turns out, made other choices and simply ran out of time. In January of 1939, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann published the results ...
(Getty Images) Richard Holmes describes how German planes dropped the first bombs on central London. Richard Holmes describes how German planes dropped the first bombs on central London.
Screengrab from the Soprintendenza Del Mare's Facebook post On March 2, 1943, a German plane took off from Catania, Sicily, and flew south toward the port of Tripoli in Libya. Armed with bombs as ...