Thor info
Just a couple of points of information. The Thor warheads were not stored at Lakenheath, other than if they were passing through there. The original US intention was indeed to store them centrally but it was calculated that it would take up to 52 hours to distribute them and mount them on the missiles. To have any credibility of launching within the prescribed 15 minutes they HAD to be actually mounted on the missiles and in that respect they were different from (and not part of) the Project E weapons. The Jupiters in Italy and Turkey were USAF not US Army weapons although they were developed by von Braun's US Army team. They were handed over to the USAF when the US Army was restricted to the development of missiles of range not exceeded 200 miles