Operation Grapple, which your book focuses on ... States in 1952 and the Soviet Union in 1953 — Britain followed suit. After being refused H-Bomb test sites in Australia and New Zealand ...

Professor Ruane speaks about how the race to beat a worldwide nuclear test ban led to Britain compromising safety standards in its hydrogen bomb-building ... co-authored 13 books and 230 ...

Documentary looking at how, in 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - codenamed Operation Grapple X - the culmination of an extraordinary scientific project. Show more In 1957 ...

In the eyes of most British politicians, Labor or Tory, the value of Britain’s H-bomb is more diplomatic than military. “It makes the U.S. pay greater regard to our point of view,” Tory ...

Britain’s first effort at a hydrogen bomb was tested on May 15, 1957 when a bomb code-named Short Granite was dropped over Malden Island in the South Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Grapple. Short ...

The UK was back out in the cold and would not be accepted at the nuclear top table until 1958 when it finally developed its own H-bomb. In all 22,000 servicemen took part in Britain’s nuclear ...

The operation in question was the firing of a Trident-II D5 ballistic missile, which weighs fifty-eight tons, from H.M.S. Vanguard, one of Britain’s nuclear ... to develop a bomb on its own.