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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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Weʼre raising £2,000 to Camp Borneo 2020
Today's blog is a request for help. Fern Crofts is 14 and her grandfather was present for Grapple X on Christmas island. This is her...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 30, 20193 min read
Grapple Z - Squadron Orders. Why were they not followed?
In an extract of the Grapple Squadron Orders dated 30th July 1958, the general instructions were issued and make interesting reading....
Invisible Enemy
Apr 29, 20194 min read
Sixtieth Anniversary Memorialisation in Kirimati - 2018
This blog has been written by Dr Becky Alexis-Martin, who attended the unveiling of a new memorial on Christmas Island on 28th April...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 28, 20194 min read
Mr Justice Foskett (Part three)
High Court Of Justice - Queens Bench Division Benjamin Browne QC and Catherine Foster & Mark James (instructed by Rosenblatt Solicitors)...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 24, 201911 min read
Mr Justice Foskett (Part two)
High Court Of Justice - Queens Bench Division Benjamin Browne QC and Catherine Foster & Mark James (instructed by Rosenblatt Solicitors)...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 19, 201925 min read
Mr Justice Foskett (Part One)
High Court Of Justice - Queens Bench Division Benjamin Browne QC and Catherine Foster & Mark James (instructed by Rosenblatt Solicitors)...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 12, 201913 min read
Chinese Nuclear Tests - Secrecy
More than 100,000 troops of China were sent into the deserts of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to provide the labour at the test sites...
Invisible Enemy
Apr 4, 20195 min read
French Nuclear Testing - History
The French government performed Nuclear tests in Algeria and in French Polynesia. these tests ran from 1960 to 1996. France is one of the...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 28, 20196 min read
Public Health England - The Statistics
Public health England maintains a database of the British Nuclear Test participants. This database is being used for the 4th study into...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 21, 20193 min read
Operation Buffalo - Why did the UK Government not learn from it's mistakes?
Operation Buffalo commenced on 27 September 1956. The operation consisted of the testing of four nuclear devices, code-named One Tree,...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 14, 20194 min read
Experiences and Afterthoughts of Corporal Wilcox - M1927192
Corporal Wilcox H.G. serving on Christmas Island during the British Nuclear Weapons Tests Programme. October 3rd 1957 until late July...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 7, 20198 min read
DDT and Radiation Exposure. Why they should not be combined when fighting Governments.
It is a known fact that DDT was sprayed on Christmas Island during Operation Grapple. It is also a known fact that DDT is now a banned...
Invisible Enemy
Mar 1, 20193 min read
Human Experimentation - What lengths will governments go to
I have thought long and hard about the subject and decided that the topic of Human Experimentation needed to be explored. Many Nuclear...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 24, 20196 min read
Medal Awards - Has the MoD now removed the Risk & Rigour Aspect?
Drone operators have now been included in the award of a medal for their service. It is a changing landscape of military combat and the...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 18, 20195 min read
Operation Dominic - The forgotten UK participants
Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions with a 38.1 Mt total yield conducted in 1962 by the United States in the...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 10, 20193 min read
The Damned - Everyone in the world should view this site.
The Damned is a website constructed from the writings of The Daily Mirror and has been constructed by Susie Boniface who has supported...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 6, 20194 min read
Living Islands - Self Sufficient Pacific Islands
We must never forget the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands that suffered as part of the worldwide nuclear testing programmes. Many of...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 1, 20194 min read
If the Isle of Man can pay, why can't the UK Government!
In June 2008 the Council of Ministers (The Hon. N.Q. Cringle, President of Tynwald and the Honourable the Council and Keys in Tynwald...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 30, 20194 min read
Enewetak Atoll Cleanup - The Forgotten Men who contained the radioactivity.
The Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands houses a 370 foot diameter dome on Runit Island covering Cactus Crater. This dome was...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 28, 20194 min read
The Massey Study - Why was it Ignored?
The 2007 Massey Study into the New Zealand Nuclear Test Veterans proved that Genetic damage had occurred in the Veterans, why was has it...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 27, 20193 min read
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