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> Vickers Valiant.
One of which went into a high-speed stall after dropping "Orange Herald"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFS91LrQ44
It seems that the first few British "thermonuclear" bombs were actually
massive A-bombs that consumed large amounts of expensive plutonium. This was
a secret until after the Cold War. Until then, the largest fission bomb
known to the public was the U.S. "Ivy King" test (500 KT) in 1952.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Z-mmu7f2E
"Orange Herald" yielded 720 KT. The bomb was a nightmare to handle because
its plutonium was almost at the point of critical mass. For safety reasons,
the plutonium sphere was filled with ball bearings, which made the bomb too
heavy to lift, so they had to be emptied out before takeoff.
thermonuclear bluff: it seems that none of the four nuclear tests held in
1957 was a hydrogen bomb test as we now understand it. But the tests had as
much to do with public relations, and especially relations with the United
States, as with constructing an authentic hydrogen bomb, and the bluff was
remarkably successful."
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n20/norman-dombey/britains-thermonuclear-bluff
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