Project Emily: Thor Irbm and the RAF

by John Boyes

This is a history of the period from 1959 to 1963 when RAF bomber command operated 60 Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles as part of the UK nuclear deterrent force. In 1956, the US approached the UK to explore the possibility of basing IRBMs on UK soil amid growing concerns over Soviet missiles. Keen to reestablish a relationship which had suffered after Suez, Macmillan and Eisenhower met in Bermuda and seeds were sown for the RAF to become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752446118
• ISBN13: 9780752446110
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"