Free Download Kenneth Hubbard – Dropping Britain’s First H-Bomb: The Story of Operation Grapple 1957/58
Pen & Sword | 2008 | ISBN: 1844157474 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 79.66 MB
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 resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world power, and in the ensuing years provide Britain’s deterrent throughout the decades of the Cold War.
