I can shed some light on this, my late father was 'chiefy' on 617 at the time of Cuban Missile Crisis. He was adamant had the call to arms been given the crews on the squadron that's had evaluated and trained with Blue Steel, would have been sent on their merry way with the weapon. It is now recognised that the squadron ORBs were sanitised and cannot be relied on as true and absolute historical record.
However, their main frustration was they not dispersed as per all their training.