Henry Spencer wrote:

If memory serves, the bomb-ejection system did *eventually* work, although
only after a lot of development grief.


I'm still trying to imagine a catapult launch where there is the roar of
the motors coming up to full power; the whoosh of the catapult; the
aircraft leaping into the air...as a trail of sparks starts behind it;
the blast of fire dispersing the steam; and the sight of the nuclear
bomb sitting in a sea of burning jet fuel on the carrier deck...
The carrier's crew would find this disturbing.

Pat