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Blogs are completed by guest bloggers on a weekly basis. If you would like to submit an article to be published, please email info@labrats.international. Every one who is connected with the tests has a story, they need to be told. We would like to thank everyone for their support to the Atomic Family, it is much appreciated.
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Just Testing - Derek Robinson - Nuclear Tests
Originally published in 1985 by Collins Harvill. In Derek’s words (from 1985): There were many regulars among the men wo served at...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Just Testing - Derek Robinson - National Service
Originally published in 1985 by Collins Harvill In Derek’s words (from 1985): Until 1960, every man who was eighteen and British and...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 11, 20214 min read
Just Testing - Derek Robinson - Introduction
Originally published in 1985 by Collins Harvill. In Derek’s words (from 1985): “The book was about the twenty thousand British servicemen...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Happy Birthday Dad by David Sankus
We were contacted by David Sankus who wanted to wish his dad happy 83rd birthday today and to see if anyone remembered his dad - John...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 26, 20212 min read
I Saw The End Of The World - Surviving Nuclear Testing
John Morris is a military veteran of the nuclear testing that took place on Christmas Island in 1957 and 1958, known officially as...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Service. Silence. Sacrifice. - Genetic Damage in Offspring.
Visit the website Genetic damage in offspring due to radiation exposure is well known, but not well documented for our generation to...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 18, 20213 min read
The X, Y and Z Files - by Alan Owen
A lot has been written recently about the X,Y and Z files on Social Media, from Mr John McDade, trustee of the British Nuclear Test...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 17, 20215 min read
MURDER, CAUSED BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE - D WHYTE
I feel obliged to inform the General Public of my information relating to the wilful murder of Service personnel by the Ministry of...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 12, 20219 min read
Conscription - Glenn Beckerton
Joining the Royal Air Force at age 21. All the male species in my family have had themselves inducted into the Army. Of course I was the...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 4, 20217 min read
ATOM - OUR QUARTERLY PUBLICATION IS OUT AT THE END OF JANUARY 2021.
Following requests for a publication and the fantastic response to the online poll we are pleased to announce that the first edition of...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 24, 20212 min read
NFLA media release, 14th January 2021
With just 9 days to go before the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Leeds and Brighton pass...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 14, 20213 min read
The Dead can no longer Speak - by Dennis Hayden
Nuclear Medal Resurgence and the Facts With regard to the resurgence of interest in a Nuclear Medal, government committees etc should...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 7, 20215 min read
Risk & Rigour - Proof for the AMSC
The Advisory Military Sub-Committee denied the British Nuclear Test Veterans a medal, claiming that the risk and rigour aspect of their...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 26, 20201 min read
WERE THE AMSC OPERATING UNDER THE WRONG CRITERIA?
On the 9th December 2020, the Advisory Military Sub-Committee announced that they had not recommended the award of a medal to the British...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 10, 20203 min read
UK MEDAL CAMPAIGN - REQUEST DENIED
The Advisory Military Sub Committee (AMSC) has denied the request from the Nuclear Test Veterans for a medal in recognition of their...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 9, 20203 min read
UK MEDAL CAMPAIGN - MAJOR UPDATE - PROGRESS AT LAST
LABRATS have received information regarding the British Nuclear Veterans medal campaign. This update was received by a veteran after they...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 26, 20203 min read
The Glow By Nighters - by twicerisensun.com
It would be impossible to tell the sorry tale of the US’s misadventures in the Marshall Islands without introducing the Lojwa Animals and...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 19, 20203 min read
Making Waves - The Rebirth of the Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is a project of Veterans For Peace. They aim to advance Veterans For Peace opposition to nuclear weapons and war, and to...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 12, 20203 min read
RADIOACTIVE BABY TEETH - JOSEPH J. MANGANO
The atomic age began with the use of nuclear weapons on Japan during World War II, followed by a race (mostly between the United States...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 5, 20204 min read
Why is Medal Recognition Important?
The Advisory Military Sub-Committee are still debating the award of an official medal to the British Nuclear Veterans. The campaign which...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 29, 20203 min read
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