Historia
Stories
Histories of the people, places and events behind the puzzles, arranged by era.
The world wars
1945
Hiroshima
The decision that mattered most was taken three months early, in a conference room at Los Alamos, by a committee working from a list of cities it had asked the Air Force to leave alone.
The Cold War
1962
Nelson Mandela
The twenty-seven years are the part everyone knows. The seventeen months before them, and the tip that may have ended them, are where the record still has a hole in it.