Blue Danube ? Barnham, Suffolk
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Blue Danube ? Barnham, Suffolk
Image: © Martin Richard Phelan Taken: 27 Jul 2018
This deactivated example of Blue Danube – Britain's first nuclear free-fall bomb – has been carefully renovated by the owner of one of the businesses based on the Gorse Industrial Estate on Thetford Heath to the west of Barnham, Suffolk. The inscription on the slate tablet reads 'BLUE DANUBE BRITAIN'S FIRST NUCLEAR DETERRENT 1953 – 1962'. The site is the former RAF Barnham nuclear bomb store and was designed to lead others into thinking that Britain had many more weapons than was actually the case. It has also been suggested that the site was a decoy and that the real site was somewhere else. From about 1959 – 60 I lived with my family on the married quarters site to the east of Barnham village, having not the slightest inkling of what lay to the west of us. Time taken not available.
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Image Location
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52.385215
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0.718909