In 1946, amid escalating tension between East and West, Britain embarked on a programme of nuclear jet bomber development, including the stopgap Short Sperrin, as Pete London explains...
The date was March 1946, and before a packed audience at Westminster College campus, in Fulton, Missouri, former British prime minister Winston Churchill gravely observed: “An iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Accompanying Churchill on the platform, US President Harry S Truman received his words warmly, as in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union had occupied much of Eastern Europe, where it remained, framing the geo-political landscape for the next half-century.
