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Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati) as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.
Seven decades after Britain detonated a nuclear bomb in the Indian Ocean, troops who took part — sometimes unknowingly — in the country’s atomic weapons tests are being recognized with a medal.
The last of 22,000 personnel who witnessed the UK’s nuclear bomb tests want answers from the PM.
These include Britain, Australia and the Bomb, Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up and My Australian Story: Atomic Testing: The Diary of Anthony Brown, Woomera, 1953. In 2006 Wakefield Press published Beyond belief: the British bomb tests: Australia's veterans speak out by Roger Cross and veteran and whistleblower, Avon Hudson.
A 1999 study for the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association found that 30 per cent of involved veterans had died, mostly in their fifties, from cancers. [167] Veterans also claim that their children have born with disabilities, disfigurements and genetic defects as a result of the tests.
Some 22,000 veterans and civilians are expected to be eligible for the honour. Atom bomb test veterans welcome medal announcement ‘after 70 years of denial’ Skip to main content
The announcement was made to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the first UK nuclear test. [2] In July 2023, the design of the new medal was released, with a commitment that many eligible veterans would receive their medals by Remembrance Sunday in November 2023.
It comes on the 70th anniversary of Operation Hurricane, which saw the UK become the world’s third nuclear power. Government unveils plan to commemorate nuclear test programme veterans Skip to ...