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Test beds
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From the time of their arrival into service at the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), all the Vulcans were painted si...
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On 4 February 1955, the first production Vulcan B.1, XA889, made its maiden flight, flying with the original Vulcan w...
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From February 1962 onwards two jets in every major RAF base, armed with nuclear weapons, were on standby for Quick Re...
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January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and is among those who are credited with being the ...
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