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Driving south on Christmas Island's lone north-south road, Tonga Fou and I are heading to the spot where, 50 years ago, the British military detonated a couple of thermonuclear weapons. Fou, 81 ...
A veteran of the Christmas Island hydrogen bomb tests has said he is proud and humbled to have received the Nuclear Test Medal. Gordon Craggs, of Ferndown, Dorset, witnessed the detonation of 24 ...
An 85-year-old veteran has received a medal for his involvement in nuclear weapons testing on Christmas Island. Roger Filby, who lives in Caversham, Reading, joined the RAF aged 18 and was part of ...
Campaigners for the nuclear test veterans have pleaded with Sir Keir Starmer's Government to keep the promises Labour made in ...
The British nuclear weapon tests on Kiritimati Island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders, writes Becky Alexis-Martin Friday 12 June 2020 15 ...
L-R Dr Jon Hogg, Veteran Owen Coker, Terri Pollard.Local schoolchildren had the opportunity to meet a veteran of Britain's ...
Image caption, Brian Cantle has been awarded a Nuclear Test Medal for his work on Christmas Island Article Information Author, Nicola Haseler & Lewis Adams Role, BBC News, Bedfordshire ...
Three nuclear test veterans have finally been awarded a medal 65 years after their service on Christmas Island during the H-bomb blasts. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Nuclear test veterans have expressed deep frustration with the Labour Government's failure to respond to compensation claims, ...
A Newsnight report on the Nuked Blood Scandal led to questions in Parliament as Angela Rayner paid tribute to veterans ...