Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for a public inquiry into the Christmas Island nuclear bomb tests that some people claim caused the premature death of hundreds of veteran soldiers.

A case in point would be 89-year-old former RAF Corporal Walter Jennings, a nuclear test veteran, who witnessed the UKs ...

Peter Stefanovic, lawyer and CEO of the Campaign for Social Justice, unearthed the video of Mr Healey speaking at an event for the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in 2022. His campaign videos ...

This booklet was given to servicemen involved in Operation Grapple, the H Bomb test, carried out on Christmas Island in 1956-7 and it explains the background on the mission, the route of the ...

Nuclear testing held in Christmas Island, Kiribati in 1957 Teburoro Tito is the former president of Kiribati and the current UN Ambassador. Kiribati was the 28th country to ratify the accord ...

160 residents in all. Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear tests were carried out on the island. In 1954, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested by the USA released 15 megatons of energy. According ...

The program explored the consequences of nuclear tests conducted on and around Christmas Island close to the equator. The program features interviews with former British “atomic soldiers,” or ...

Ivan McCabe never forgets the scorching heat and force of the blast of a nuclear bomb’s explosion. The 86-year-old retired ...