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Dropping Britain
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Dropping Britain's First H-Bomb The Story of Operation Grapple 1957/58
Author: Kenneth Hubbard
Year: 2008
Format: PDF
File size: 79,7 MB
Language: ENG

On 15 May 195758 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber XD818 under the command of Wg Cdr Kenneth Hubbard, OC 49 Squadron RAF, 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.

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