Dropping Britain's First H-Bomb: The Story of Operation Grapple 1957/58 by Michael Simmons, Kenneth Hubbard

Dropping Britain's First H-Bomb: The Story of Operation Grapple 1957/58

Michael Simmons, Kenneth Hubbard

196 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britain's first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the re...

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