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Nuclear test veterans to be recognised with new medal following campaign

Thousands of people who took part in the UK’s nuclear test programme will receive a medal recognising their service following years of campaigning for the honour. An estimated 22,000 veterans and civilians will be eligible for the Nuclear Test Medal,...

21 Nov 2022 at 13:00

Government unveils plan to commemorate nuclear test programme veterans

The Government has announced it will spend almost half a million pounds commemorating the “incredible service” of the veterans of Britain’s nuclear testing programme. It comes on the 70th anniversary of Operation Hurricane, the detonation of a ...

03 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Nuclear test veteran’s joy as commemoration of 70th anniversary announced

A veteran of Britain’s atomic testing programme has spoken of his joy after Boris Johnson announced a commemoration day and called for medals to be awarded. The outgoing Prime Minister announced he will commission an oral history to ...

05 Sept 2022 at 16:39

Rayner: I will do ‘everything within my power’ to help nuclear test veterans

Angela Rayner has promised to do “everything within my power” to help nuclear test veterans access their medical records. The deputy Labour leader said it was “disgusting” that veterans and their descendants had been denied the ...

10 Oct 2023 at 22:11

World

Lower house of Russian parliament votes to revoke nuclear test ban ratification

The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given its final approval to a Bill revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty, a move Moscow described as putting it on par with the United States. State Duma ...

18 Oct 2023 at 13:05

Criminal sanctions could be brought over harm suffered by nuclear test veterans

Criminal sanctions could be brought against the people who exposed veterans to radiation during nuclear tests, Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has suggested. Veterans and their families have been calling for ...

24 Oct 2024 at 12:05

Atom bomb test veterans welcome medal announcement ‘after 70 years of denial’

Atom bomb testing veterans have welcomed the Government’s announcement of a medal recognising their service after “70 years of denial”. An estimated 22,000 veterans and civilians will be eligible for the Nuclear Test ...

21 Nov 2022 at 19:15

World

Russian parliament’s upper house revokes ratification of global nuclear test ban

The upper house of the Russian parliament has revoked the ratification of a global nuclear test ban in what Moscow has described as a move to establish parity with the United States. The Federation Council voted on ...

25 Oct 2023 at 10:34

Atomic test veterans to attend 70th anniversary commemoration

A commemoration will be held on Monday for veterans of the UK’s nuclear test programme, whose “invaluable contribution” to the country is set to be marked. The service, held at the National Memorial Arboretum at ...

20 Nov 2022 at 23:30

Disabled son of nuclear test veteran seeks answers in MoD medical records

A disabled man whose father was a nuclear test veteran has said the disclosure of medical records could provide answers he needs for his son. Steve Purse, 49, was born with short stature about a decade after ...

20 Sept 2023 at 20:44

Health

Living under a mushroom cloud: Daughter of nuclear bomb test veteran blames radiation for crippling health issues

A woman who believes her father’s exposure to nuclear tests carried out by the British military during the 1950s is responsible for her many illnesses has said veterans and their descendants are “living ...

17 Apr 2024 at 06:30

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