World war II

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, but many of the Manhattan Project scientists who helped create it were not fans of atomic weapons – they became the founders of the movement for nuclear disarmament.

65 years ago today, codebreaker and WWII hero Alan Turing was driven to the point of suicide by the British state – for the simple crime of being gay. During the 1930s and 40s, were arrested in Nazi Germany.

In early 1944, the French Resistance staged an uprising against Nazi rule on the Glières plateau, high up in the Alps. Though defeated, it remains one of the great moments in the history of rebellion against Hitler in occupied Europe.