The ultimate arms race: The Iron Curtain falls – Part 6: the Atomic Age
In the final part of our series on the coming of the Cold War, Taylor Downing examines the struggle for nuclear domination.
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New evidence comes to light for Britain’s nuclear test veterans
New documentation has come to light which suggests that the British government concealed evidence that personnel involved in the UK’s nuclear-testing programme in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950s and 1960s were at risk from radiation damage. For decades, nuclear-testing…
Britain’s nuclear test veterans still fighting for justice
Some of the few surviving members of the group of men who witnessed Britain’s nuclear testing programme are still campaigning for justice for what it did to their bodies. The United Kingdom conducted a series of nuclear tests in the…
British nuclear test veterans to receive new medal
The Nuclear Test Medal has been announced to commemorate the ‘Plutonium Jubilee’, the 70th anniversary of Britain’s first nuclear test.