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Vickers Valiant
- ... that Vickers Valiant XD818 (pictured) dropped the first British hydrogen bomb as part of Operation Grapple? Source: "XD818 was one of eight Valiants specially modified by Vickers for involvement in Operation `Grapple' -the testing of Britains' first H-bomb... XD818, piloted by Wg Cdr Hubbard OBE DFC, dropped Britain's first live H-bomb (thermo-nuclear fusion device), a Green Granite device within a Blue Danube ballistic case weighing 10,000lb (4,536kg) off Malden Island, 400 miles south of Christmas Island, which was an air burst yielding 150 to 200kt." ([1])
Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC).
