All news on the topic: Nuclear test veterans

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

More than 100 survivors and families have backed a new lawsuit against the MoD over missing medical records

Surviving veterans are convinced exposure to radiation left them, and in some cases their descendants, with life-changing conditions such as myeloma and leukaemia

Veterans launch a mass legal fight, backed by the Mirror, demanding "give us the bloody truth", as we uncover a cache of 150 documents proving scientists conducted experiments on servicemen, civilians, and indigenous people at the weapons tests

Brian Unthank has suffered 92 skin cancers and lost 13 children to miscarriage. He's one of dozens signing up to battle the MoD over 20 years of missing medical records

Veterans who have been victims of state crimes over their medical records are still unable to show the PM their evidence, while a much-wanted medal ceremony with the King has not been arranged

Delays have hit the production of the nuclear test medal, with the first ones produced only two weeks ago. Now ministers have admitted not all of the 1,700 who have applied may get them in time

More than 2,000 people who have waited more than 70 years for recognition were hoping to get the medals personally from the King

The government has been urged to ensure the King delivers new medal personally, and to compensate victims of the testing

John Robinson was at the medal factory in Birmingham to see the first medal roll off the production line after a five-year Mirror campaign to honour Britain's nuclear test veterans

The delayed and long-awaited nuclear test medal is finally in production, 70 years after Britain's first atomic bomb

Nuclear veterans whose blood records are mysteriously missing from records of Cold War radiation tests have been refused government help to find them

The PM has been told to fix his "broken promises" as MPs urge an investigation into missing blood records of nuclear veterans

The nuked blood scandal first exposed by the Mirror last year has uncovered shocking new evidence of possible crimes committed by the British state against its own servicemen

Yet another veteran of the Cold War has died alone without family, with friends desperately trying to trace distant relatives in the hope they can attend his funeral

The long-awaited honour was promised in summer, but the Ministry of Defence says the "timescale has been revised"

Veterans of the nuclear tests waged a long fight for official recognition, but a year on from meeting the Prime Minister they're being told the medals are delayed

The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association says it has recovered from being "effectively insolvent" and insists it is still "financially viable"

Neil Haberman wrote a first-hand account of a nuclear explosion and his family later suffered a litany of health problems, reports Susie Boniface. But his daughter fears the British government is still hiding the truth about what happened

The Prime Minister has refused to look at their evidence of a criminal cover-up within the Ministry of Defence, less than a year after pledging his support for a police investigation

The king is one of thousands of sons and daughters whose fathers were involved in the Cold War weapons tests, and who now have the right to collect a posthumous gong on their behalf

Veterans of the British nuclear tests are being sought for a £250,000 project to create a documentary with the British Library, and to be taught to A-level students

Campaigners are furious after the Ministry of Defence confirmed not every veteran who took part in Cold War nuclear tests will get a medal

Applications have opened for the Nuclear Test Medal, just 5 months after it was approved by the King, but it has been blocked for dozens of troops who say they were irradiated on orders of the UK government

Families are wrestling with illness as they wait for a medal, and still don't have a date to meet Rishi Sunak to discuss further recognition