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H-bombs & hula girls : Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea / written and compiled by Michael Johnston.
- Title
- H-bombs & hula girls : Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea / written and compiled by Michael Johnston.
- Author
- Johnston, Michael, 1936-
- Publication
- London : Uniform, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing Group, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- 319 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "H-bombs and hula girls tells the extraordinary tale of ten bright and cheerful young British midshipmen who were part of Operation Grapple, the top secret thermonuclear weapon tests at Christmas Island, which marked in 1957 the first successful test of a British nuclear weapon. Evoking the Cold War atmosphere of Britain in the 1950s as it raced to secure its place among the world's thermonuclear powers, H-Bombs and Hula Girls follows these men on their remarkable journey. Their trip begins on the aircraft carrier HMS Warrior. On it, they sail through an Atlantic hurricane, squeeze through the Panama Canal, and then make Easter Island, where they were witness to three megaton H-bomb explosions. Afterward, they tour Hawaii and the South Pacific and around the coast of South America, serving as goodwill ambassadors." --Publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- H-bombs and hula girls
- Hydrogen bombs & hula girls
- Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781910500682
- 1910500682
- OCLC
- 986312557
- SCSB-10986644
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library