Originally Posted by
Danny42C
"Moreover, we were the only Service fully on the offensive. Bomber Command was hitting back, night after night, far harder, but in exactly the same way, as the enemy had bombed (and were still bombing) us in the "Blitz". Nobody felt the slightest guilt about it at the time - that was a luxury we could allow ourselves post-war, long after the danger was past".
Recall too that Bomber Command* crews of he 50s and 60s were equally committed retaliation while at the same time hoping that deterrence would work.
Also allowed the CND the luxury to propagate their peacenik theories.
*and of course all the other nuclear forces.