britain calls for a un vote for nations to intervene on the side of south korea
Britains rocket goes up, the first stage ignites and gets it up to an altitude of 17km, the second stage seperates but doesn't fire and the rocket falls back down to earth, britain researches methods of recovery for rocket parts and it's payload for future launches.
Britain detonates its first atom bomb off the coast of western australia, codenamed
Operation Hurricane it detonates inside an old ship, its
the biggest atomic yield in the world thus far. not apparently because china tested a H bomb