As a result of reading this interesting thread I purchased a signed copy from John Boyes of Project Emily. What a well researched book with lots of titbits to fascinate like the Proctor landing at RAF Polebrook in 1960 causing a security scare. Also the daily C-47 ferry flight from Northolt to Lakenheath then Hemswell and Driffield back to Northolt via North Luffenham carrying Douglas technicians and spares back in 1959.
When I was at school in the sixties "nuclear" physics was a taboo
subject probably to stop anxiety in us as we had all seen footage of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs. I wonder how local residents to the Thor bases were affected psycologically as they would have been annihilated in a nuclear strike ?