“Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story,”

“Britain’s post-war nuclear weapons programme put some 39,000 servicemen, scientists and local people in close proximity to 45 nuclear bombs and hundreds of radioactive experiments.

This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy,” say the makers of a new documentary titled “Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story,” which is airing tonight on BB2.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00257rk/britains-nuclear-bomb-scandal-our-story

The Nuclear Test Veterans and their families have been fighting for years for justice. Today, only 2,000 or so—most in their 80s, and with chronic health problems—still survive.

The families point out that the veterans subjected to nuclear testing “have had higher rates of death and cancer than other veterans, while their wives have reported 3x the normal rate of miscarriages and their children have displayed 10x the usual amount of birth defects.”

The veterans’ “medical records—detailing blood and urine tests taken during the trials, to assess what impact if any it was having on their bodies —are mysteriously missing. Without them, thousands of troops have suffered decades of fear and worry.”

Based on new evidence, the veterans and their families have launched “a landmark legal action to end seven decades of trauma.”

They are asking for “your help to finally get access to their full medical records, and the answers they have always sought.”

According to the case page: “This is the longest-running scandal in British history. In it, you can find the roots of official attitude to other injustices, like Orgreave, Hillsborough, Grenfell.

As well as the surviving veterans, there are an estimated 155,000 living descendants, many of which suffer from their own trauma because of the anxiety caused by every pregnancy, every illness, and their ever-present fear of early death.” Read more here.

Thank you for your support,

Maeve at CrowdJustice