The Cold War Britain's V-Bombers poised to respond to any first strike by the USSR The most nerve-wracking time - the Cuban Missile Crisis when all available V-Bombers were armed up with nuclear weapons, and maintained at 5 minutes readiness to scramble, despite the British Prime Minister's denial that Britain had any involvement.The ground crews who waited underneath these formidable aircraft, ready to launch them on their one-way mission now have stories to tell. The same ground crews who maintained the aircraft, keeping them ever ready to perform their lethal mission.We learn of a hush-hush visit to a British V-Bomber base by a sitting U.S. President or about an unwilling stowaway facing the prospect of a potentially fatal flight in a Vulcan, while another perfectly willing stowaway ends up hundreds of miles from his home. Russian KGB espionage and subversion are also revealed. The author and some of his colleagues from that long ago era tell their stories that range from the frig