To ask you to watch the documentary about nuclear test veterans tonight?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/britains-nuclear-bomb-scandal-our-story

My Dad is a nuclear test veteran. He was around to serve in the navy, and was part of the clean up crew at Maralinga.

He was part of the class action that the MOD spent years and millions fighting.

The veterans want full disclosure regarding the health effects on themselves, and the genetic impact in their descendants, and have so far been denied that.

Time is running out for these men and women.

Please watch if you can.

Another documentary was released on Channel 4 recently. Please can we shone a light on this issue.

Absolutely. I had a vague knowledge of this but not the detail. I saw some of the veterans talking about the programme on BBC breakfast on Monday and I was stunned tbh. My sincere sympathies for your father and your family having been subjected to this. I hope this light shining on it helps to bring whatever justice the veterans and their families want.

Thank you for posting this. I wasn’t aware this was on and will definitely take a look. We lost a close relative recently who was a nuclear testing veteran and his descendants have suffered a number of different health issues that may well be linked to this. The way these men have been treated over the years is shocking.

There is another documentary from September that might also be of interest.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-atomic-bomb-scandal

Thank you x

Personally I am at the end of my rope with lies, injustice and cover ups by those in authority.

It's just too much.

I will be watching. I am deeply sorry to hear about what your dad went through and I can only imagine the lies and the cover up heaping yet more pain on the family.
I am anti-nuclear weapons anyway, the level of human suffering they can unleash is totally unacceptable.
Think of your Dad and all those, and the generations after them, whose lives have been blighted by this abomination.

I have just finished watching this and came to see if anyone had posted.

It's unbelievable how the veterans and their families have been lied too and dismissed, and that before even delving into the inhumane way the veterans (and local communities) were used as guinea pigs.

I truly hope that they win and can access their medical records and compensation is offered

Watched the whole thing and did some very angry crying at the end when the lies of the MOD were plastered over the screen.

Our government will never capitulate - they are waiting for the last veteran to die so they don't have to address the issue. I think we descendants won't give up easily though.

I remember reading about these tests and how one man's hand actually lit up like an x-ray from the radiation. Truly terrifying.

I'd never even heard of this before so thanks for posting OP. I'e just read the link in your OP and I'm shocked and horrified. I missed the documentary but will watch it on catch up.

I just watched this and searched to see if anyone else had posted. My grandpa was a nuclear testing veteran.