All news on the topic: Nuclear test veterans

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A ’smoking gun’ reveals that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) covered up the medical records of nuclear veterans
The Mirror has uncovered a secret order for MoD staff to remove medical records of troops used in Cold War radiation experiments, as campaigners call for an investigation into possible crimes
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The Ministry of Defence spent £250,000 to bury thousands of reports on nuclear blood tests
Tens of thousands of files dating from the Cold War that showed the horror effects of radiation and nuclear testing on British troops were covered up
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Nuked blood: Minister finally allowed to see secret files while officials watch
The Atomic Weapons Establishment is being forced to open its most secret files, which campaigners believe will prove the nuked blood scandal
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Ministry of Defence ordered to hand over nuclear veteran's blood tests to family
Terry Gledhill died in 2015, but his daughter Jane O’Connor argued that she was able to exercise his legal rights to see the blood test results - now a tribunal ruled in her favour
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Tory minister blocked from seeing nuked blood files by his own department
Officials at the Atomic Weapons Establishment are said to be blocking a ministerial review of secret records about blood tests on Cold War troops
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MoD lied for 40 years that irradiated British troops had a "zero dose"
As Tory MPs demand an urgent review, the MoD refuses to bin the dodgy data and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak still won't talk to survivors
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'Britain needs a spring clean - but is anyone up to the job'
Lies, spin and failure have combined to make the Tory government's last year of power foul in every way, says Fleet Street Fox. But does Labour have what it takes to clean up the stinking mess they've made of Britain?
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Nuclear test veterans given medals 65 years after H-bomb blast
All three veterans served on Christmas Island, now known as Kiritimati, and were exposes to blasts 120 times more powerful than that dropped on Japan in 1945
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'Your justice is in the post - and we all know they rarely bother to deliver'
Offers of compensation and exoneration to Post Office victims are not enough, says Fleet Street Fox. True justice comes when they close the scandal factory
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Veteran nuked blood records a 'state secret', admits government
Records of blood testing of nuclear servicemen have been locked away for decades as a state secret, the Mirror can reveal
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Nuked blood: Rishi Sunak "made to look an idiot" by his officials
No10 officials have told nuclear veterans their medical records are not missing, but won't let the PM meet them to discuss it
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'The one thing Rishi Sunak did wrong which proves why he's about to lose power'
Covid, Rwanda deportartions and party divisions can finish any Prime Minister, says Fleet Street Fox. It takes someone spectacularly cack-handed to ruin something handed to them on a plate
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Veterans win official review of nuked blood 'cover-up'
More than 100 documents about blood and urine tests of troops which the MoD previously denied existed will be reviewed, Parliament has been told
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PROOF: MoD official rewrote the science on nuke veteran cancers
Documents show civil servants demanding rewrites of a scientific analysis, over fears it would give nuclear veterans "a bonanza"
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Tory minister tells veterans "there is no cover-up" of missing medical records
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer faced accusations of "dereliction of duty" for not helping nuclear survivors find their missing medical records, but accused others of "politicisation"
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Eco-tycoon Dale Vince backs nuke vets and tells Rishi Sunak 'now it's your turn'
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince is in a fight to make Britain fairer - and says it starts with the nuclear test veterans' search for their missing medical records
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Here's what the Cenotaph's for - veteran gets personal salute from Princess Anne
John Williams struggled to keep up with his fellow heroes, so they slowed down and waited while he was applauded by the crowds and Princess Royal
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Nuclear test veterans left to organise their own medal ceremonies
Heroes of Britain's nuclear tests have had to organise their own presentation ceremonies after the government failed to do so
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New documentary tells the story of nuclear weapons tests around the world
'A Thousand Cranes' will compare the stories of Britain's nuclear veterans and indigenous victims of atomic testing, but needs £100,000 to continue filming
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MoD admits it may hold almost 5,000 nuked blood files
The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them
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Nuke veteran, 86, delighted to get his medal from the King's man
Great-grandad Jackson Hasson was presented with the nuclear medal by his local Lord Lieutenant, but Tory ministers are still stalling on arranging a Royal event for other survivors
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Bloody truth: Rishi Sunak refuses to look for veterans' missing medical records
The Prime Minister refuses to comment on claims of missing medical records, despite backing them when he ran for office last year
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Labour promises the bloody truth to nuke veterans
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner pledged full accountability to nuclear veterans battling for the truth about their missing blood records
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Tory Johnny Mercer tells veterans to sue Government over missing medical records
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer told a nuclear veteran campaigner to "sue" the Ministry of Defence after being shown evidence that medical records are being unlawfully withheld
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Nuke test veteran, 92, is first to get new medal - but not his blood records
Operation Grapple hero Bob Last was the first veteran to get his medal in the post, but is still being refused his medical records in the nuked blood scandal