Any of the A-bomb test aircrew still around? Any here? Would be fascinating to hear some accounts of those events - not technical stuff, more an impression of what it was like to be involved in doing such extraordinary things. A mere picture of a live A-bomb fills me with awe - god only knows what it must be like to actually set one off.
Probably a forlorn hope, the recent Cold War TV prog revealed the sort of secrecy involved, with the aircraft surrounded by screens as it was loaded so the aircrew never saw the bomb at all. Probably all had their tongues cut out after landing.
It's a real disservice to history IMO if there isn't to be a well written account, I'm sure all the technical stuff is well documented but that will obviously never be released. One of the great shames of the moon program is that we *still* don't know what it actually felt like to go there - those astronaughts were very bright chaps but none of them were blessed with great powers of description. The moon-shots and the Manhattan project are often referred to as the two biggest industrial projects ever, hopefully we can get better accounts of what must be one of Britain's greatest endeavours.