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The Cold War! Britain’s V-Bombers poised to respond to any first strike by the USSR! The most nerve-wracking time – the Cuban Missile Crisis when all available V-Bombers were armed up with nuclear weapons, and maintained at 5 minutes readiness to scramble, despite the British Prime Minister’s denial that Britain had any involvement.The ground crews who waited underneath these formidable aircraft, ready to launch them on their one-way mission now have stories to tell. The same ground crews who maintained the aircraft, keeping them ever ready to perform their lethal mission.We learn of a hush-hush visit to a British V-Bomber base by a sitting U.S. President or about an unwilling stowaway facing the prospect of a potentially fatal flight in a Vulcan, while another perfectly willing stowaway ends up hundreds of miles from his home. Russian KGB espionage and subversion are also revealed.