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The Cold War: How Kent prepared for a nuclear explosion including bunkers in Maidstone, Gravesend and Hoo
Bombs falling, houses destroyed, train lines blown up, lives lost.
These were the fears and realities of life in Kent during the Second World War, and around the county you can still see bomb craters, civilian names on war memorials and town designs impacted by the conflict.
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki sparked a decades-long arms race. Picture: Wikimedia
However the carnage of history s bloodiest conflict was replaced by a fear that gripped the globe - The Cold War.
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were the results of a secret arms race which was thrown explosively into the public eye, one that would only continue escalating for the next four and a half decades.