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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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Australian Participants
In 2001, the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs published a preliminary nominal roll of members of the Australian Defence Forces...
Invisible Enemy
Feb 10, 20235 min read
Restricted ES Files - The Real Reason
As the community is aware, the ES and AB Files were removed from the National Archives many years ago for a 'Security Review', but...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Megaton Tests - 8th November 1957
This week's blog comes courtesy of Diane who found this document that belonged to her father. The Foreword says: 'It is unlikely that...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Foulness the Forgotten Island
In the United Kingdom nuclear weapons development, acquisition and deployment now occurs entirely within the organisational structure of...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 12, 20238 min read
Exposure, Deaths and Claims
Information contained within Air Ministry files shows exposure levels, deaths and early claims for war pensions and compensation from...
Invisible Enemy
Jan 4, 20235 min read
Canberra Crash Coverup
On the 16th May 1957 RAF English Electric Canberra Pr.7 (WH790) of 58 Squadron crashed on GCA approach in bad weather at Goose Bay,...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 29, 20224 min read
Colin James Collection - Part Three
Colin James is a multi-award-winning reporter at The Advertiser who has spent more than 30 years covering South Australian politics,...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Medal Bulletin - December 2022
We met with the Office for Veterans Affairs (OVA) yesterday along with other stakeholders to discuss the medal award and how it is...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 16, 20222 min read
Colin James Collection - Part Two
Colin James is a multi-award-winning reporter at The Advertiser who has spent more than 30 years covering South Australian politics,...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 15, 20221 min read
Colin James Collection - Part One
Colin James is a multi-award-winning reporter at The Advertiser who has spent more than 30 years covering South Australian politics,...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Would You Fly Through an Atomic Cloud?
British Nuclear Test Veterans Did Many Times #76 Squadron From the archives of Flt Lt Joe Pasquini In August 2009 Flt Lt Joe Pasquini of...
Invisible Enemy
Dec 1, 20223 min read
This is for the Nuclear Families
As the dust settles on the medal announcement for the Nuclear Test Veterans by Rishi Sunak on the 21st of November 2022, we celebrate...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 24, 20227 min read
Atomic Bomb : Would You Like a Haircut With That?
From the Archives of Flt Lt Joe Pasquini “To look at us on the coral fore-shore of the Observation Area, half an hour before the...
Invisible Enemy
Nov 1, 20223 min read
NOVEMBER DATES
As the leading campaigning organisation in the UK for Nuclear Test Veterans and their families, we have been working extremely hard to...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 27, 20223 min read
Commemorative Event - 21st November 2022
You are invited to an event to mark the contributions and service of Nuclear Test Veterans of the UK Armed Forces on the 21st of November...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 20, 20221 min read
The Plym Pudding
NUm The Plym Pudding is an account of Her Majesty's Ship PLYM which at 09:30 local time on Friday 3rd of October and was obliterated in...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 13, 20221 min read
JAMES STEWART
Born:5th June 1930 Died: May 1958 Does anyone know him? James Stewart was born in Rusholme, Manchester. He attended a grammar school in...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 8, 20223 min read
CHRISTMAS ISLAND: WERE THEY SOLD A PACKAGE HOLIDAY?
From the Archives of Flt Lt Joe Pasquini – 76 Squadron Putting together pieces of the historical events on Christmas Island (as well as...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 5, 20228 min read
70th Anniversary - Operation Hurricane
70 years on from the first British nuclear test 'Operation Hurricane', the UK Government has still not officially recognised the UK...
Invisible Enemy
Oct 4, 20225 min read
Reinstate a dedicated Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs
Before Liz Truss came into power, she promised that she would maintain the level of support for the veterans of her predecessor Boris...
Invisible Enemy
Sep 30, 20222 min read
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