Oily, Hi,
My involvement came from being at the V-Bomber Station, in UK, where were based the a/c that dropped some of the bombs.
At that time the routing of the a/c out to Oz was so TOP SECRET that you could have been executed in the Tower of London for even thinking about it! We discovered which way they were going (and, remember, we had to prepare their flight forecasts!) when the Boss found out from his bank in Stamford that they’d just had a big delivery of a large amount of Canadian dollars!
The ‘perceived truth’ was that ‘the colonials’ in Oz were not up (technically and/or scientifically) to the job. It becomes obvious, after reading a large amount of the Oz papers, that ‘the Brits’ arrived in what they thought was ‘darkest Oz’! There were, clearly, some considerable frictions which the Oz papers do tend to gloss over with a ‘sang froid’ not normally associated with your average ‘okker’!
Clearly, senior politicians in UK were prepared to go to any lengths to make sure “We” had “The Bomb”!
HTH
Resmoroh