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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. [3]
An estimated 22,000 veterans and civilians will be eligible for the Nuclear Test Medal, which has been introduced to mark the 70th anniversary of the nation’s first atomic test, Downing Street said.
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the
Nuclear Test Medal: 21 November 2022: 1952–1967: Issued for service as part of the UK's nuclear weapons testing programmes [20] General Service Medal (1962) 6 October 1964: 24 December 1962 – 31 July 2007 [21] Always issued with appropriate campaign clasps. Replaced 1918 GSM. Rhodesia Medal: 1980: 1 December 1979 – 20 March 1980 [22]
With the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement, Britain also gained access to the Nevada Test Site, [148] where the first British major test took place underground on 1 March 1962, [149] but there was no certainty that Nevada would be available in the future. The 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banned atmospheric testing, and no site was ...
SAC began deploying nuclear-capable bombers to the UK in April 1949. [120] Four weeks after Operation Hurricane, the United States successfully demonstrated a hydrogen bomb . The technology mastered in Operation Hurricane was six years old, and with the hydrogen bomb in hand, the US Congress saw no benefit in renewing cooperation. [ 104 ]
A British nuclear missile test launch failed at a test site off the coast of Florida, marking the second time in eight years that the country’s Trident 2 ballistic missiles have malfunctioned ...
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.