An enthralling FA Cup Final, and the metropolis of Manchester was the winner.
Millions, possibly billions, around the world and maybe on other planets tuned in to see the most remarkable start to any of the 142 F A Cup Finals, and here at New Manchester Walks Towers we’ve seen most of them.
But the watching world – from Vermont to Vladivostock; from Ouagadougou to Ogmore – thought: “We must go to this Manchester. What an exciting place!”
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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