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Launch Pad UK

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Launch Pad UK

By Jim Wilson

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About the book

For most British people the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth. Yet, astonishingly, the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces were set to such an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles stood on a round-the-clock wartime state of alert ready to be fired; these were the 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made Britain, in effect, America's launch pad. Durin...Show more

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9781473886650

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Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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Launch Pad UK

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