Dear Prime Minister
On the 10th December 2020, the Advisory Military Sub-Committee’s (AMSC) recommended to the Honours Committee, that a medal should not be awarded the personnel involved in the United Kingdom’s nuclear testing programme. 
While that decision was disappointing to all in the nuclear veteran community, it has been compounded by the news that the French Government, on the 31st January 2021, awarded their nuclear test veterans a medal. It appears that the United Kingdom and North Korea are the only two countries that do not recognize their nuclear veterans in some way. For years we have been ignored, and fobbed off with patronizing statements about, how the Government is grateful for our service, now is the time for the Government to show how grateful it actual is.
As Winston Churchill said, “A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow”, nuclear testing has cast a large shadow over the lives of the personnel involved in these tests, along with the lives of their descendants, but we do not have the glitter of a medal.
Now is the time for the Government to do the honourable thing; instead of hiding behind spurious claims from generations of civil servants; and finally award a medal to all personnel involved in the nuclear testing programme.
Yours sincerely,