Nope. Most RAF crews got to launch one round (cute name for a nuclear missile), a missile was taken from its dispersed site and flown back to the US to Vandenberg AFB, where the RAF crew got to light the blue touch paper in what was known as a CTL (Combat Training Launch).
Incidentally, we had our own missile system called Blue Streak which was tested at Spadeadam in Cumbria and on the Isle of Wight. Test firings of the missiles were carried out but were clamped so that they never took off. We did launch some rockets from Woomera in Australia and recently some bits that survived re-entry were discovered in the Bush. Co-ordinates were for sale on ebay...
I know some oldsters from the area and they recall seeing the missiles going along the roads, a pity that no-one had camera-phones back then!
Interestingly, the British public were remarkably uninformed about the whole programme (top secret of course), but the CND seemed to know long before anyone else where the sites were to be constructed and made a real nuisance of themselves during construction.
There's some contemporary footage on British Pathe
here. Also footage on movietone.com but you need to register (free) to see it, search term 'thor' (obviously).
