1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement as an atomic spy, caused the proposal to be dropped. The June 1951 defection of Donald Maclean, who had served as a British member of the Combined Policy Committee from January 1947 to August 1948, reinforced the Americans' distrust of British security arrangements. The first British atomic bomb was successfully tested in Operation Hurricane on 3 October 1952, but although it was more advanced than the American bombs of 1946, Britain was still several years behind in nuclear weapons technology. The United States conducted Ivy Mike, the first nuclear test of a true thermonuclear device (also known as a hydrogen
Operation Crusader (video game) will [also] be publishing a "second" game from Atomic" centered on the North African Campaign. He speculated that this was "what would be the next "V for Victory" game in an Avalon Hill wrapper". By January 1994, Atomic Games had revealed the "World at War" series as the successor to its "V for Victory" line under Avalon, and its first entry was entitled "Operation Crusader". Alongside "Kingmaker", "Operation Crusader" was one of the first two titles released as part of Avalon Hill's new initiative. The computer game division had previously been known for low-quality titles, a problem that Avalon Hill's