Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Jim Wilson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473886651
• ISBN13: 9781473886650
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"