Servicemen exposed to radioactive fallout in cold war weapons testing are using newly declassified documents to fight for a fair compensation scheme In November 1957, thousands of servicemen on Christmas Island in the SouthPacific watched the testing of Britain’s first megaton thermonuclear bomb.Witnesses compared it to seeing the end of the world. Many viewed theexplosion on the island while wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirts, withsunglass…
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