Stephen Walker

Very sad to learn of the passing of the magnificent Tom #Stoppard. I was privileged to work with Tom on a movie screenplay based on my book ‘Shockwave’ about the Hiroshima bomb and was stunned not just by his talent but by his incredible generosity and kindness. A great loss.

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@SWalkerBEYOND @ArchiveSketcher @BALPApilots Unabridged original published in Aeroplane, March 2024

Props clear! New long read: ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’ in the well-traveled @BALPApilots journal on the rawest origins of a profession through the lens of pilot and machine a century ago. 🫡 🇬🇧 ✈️ 🧑‍✈️

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Incredibly the atomic bomb air crews visited Nagasaki a few weeks after they'd bombed it. For some crew members what they saw would haunt them for the rest of their lives... Listen here 🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode416/ #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclearbomb @SWalkerBEYOND

@ColdWarPod Eighty years today #Nagasaki was obliterated by an #atom bomb. I interviewed the last surviving aircrews for my book #Shockwave. They told an incredible story of that mission. A story as totally unexpected as it was dramatic. Check out this podcast to see why.

NEW - The #AtomicBombing of #Japan - The First Shots of the #ColdWar? With @SWalkerBEYOND Listen here 🎧📷coldwarconversations.com/episode416/ #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclearbomb

This is Harold Agnew. Atomic scientist. Grinning for the camera 80 years ago today. In his hand he holds the plutonium core of the atom bomb dropped on #Nagasaki killing 80,000 people. Why was his photo taken? For posterity? For fun? Read my book SHOCKWAVE for the amazing story.

Every #nuclear arms limitation treaty is dead. The UN’s non proliferation treaty is ignored by India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea. The world is sliding into existential danger. 80 years today after #Hiroshima, how did we get here? ⁦@WmCollinsBooks⁩ amzn.eu/d/dz4w9ZH

Every #nuclear arms limitation treaty is dead. The UN’s non proliferation treaty is ignored by India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea. The world is sliding into existential danger. 80 years today after #Hiroshima, how did we get here? ⁦@WmCollinsBooks⁩ amazon.co.uk/Shockwave-Coun…

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80 years ago - this happened. The world was never the same again. The fissioning enriched #uranium that wiped out #Hiroshima and killed 150,000 people weighed the same as a bottle of water. Or a pineapple. Think about it.

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At midnight 80 years ago, the men tasked to drop the #atom bomb on #Hiroshima had their final mission briefing. They were told it would end the war. But what did they REALLY think? Read my New York Times bestseller #Shockwave for the true story. amzn.eu/d/5yrcABq #Amazon.

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Amazed to see my Guardian article on The Men Who Dropped The Bombs on #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki now has over half a million reads. Read the stories of the missions which changed history by the men who flew them. Terrifyingly relevant today. @thehistoryguy theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

So Trump really thinks his strikes on #Iran's nuclear sites are a Trumpian version of #Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I just love the guy's humility. He should read my Guardian article (which he'd probably denounce as fake news)... theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

If you liked my Guardian feature on the #atomic bombings of Japan check out my New York Times Bestselling book ‘Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima’. We live in a world of nuclear fears. Read the gripping story of how it all began! @WmCollinsBooks amzn.eu/d/2J6Uw3h

My Guardian magazine article on the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 is now online. What a day to remember something like this. God help us all. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…