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Blogs are completed by guest bloggers on a weekly basis. If you would like to submit an article to be published, please email info@labrats.international. Every one who is connected with the tests has a story, they need to be told. We would like to thank everyone for their support to the Atomic Family, it is much appreciated.
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Invisible Enemy
May 16, 20244 min read
Operation 'Hot Box'
Operation 'Hot Box' was released in October 1953 and contains the full description of the measurements and procedures carried out at...
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Invisible Enemy
May 9, 20243 min read
Applying for Medical Records
By Susie Boniface. In light of the recent FOI win on the medical records, I've been asked to let people know how they can apply for the...
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Invisible Enemy
Apr 17, 20241 min read
Nuclear Veterans (Compensation) Bill
A private members bill is due for it's second reading on Friday 19th April. it has been brought by Owen Thompson of the Scottish National...
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Invisible Enemy
Mar 14, 20243 min read
The Dose Received at Various Parts of the Body by a Man Walking Over Contaminated Ground
For decades, the Ministry of Defence has relied on dosimeter readings using standard dosimeters carried by the man. New evidence shows...
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Invisible Enemy
Mar 1, 20248 min read
Tackling nuclear legacies, 70 years after Bravo
Islands Business magazine (Fiji), March 2024 www.islandsbusiness.com By Nic Maclellan On 1 March 1954, the US government exploded a...
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Invisible Enemy
Feb 15, 20244 min read
Asbestos Exposure - Naval Personnel
A new study of naval personnel published in November 2023 has shown that approximately 27% of lung cancers in Australian seamen and 12%...
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Invisible Enemy
Jan 31, 20243 min read
Silence is Deafening
In November 2023, we exposed the 1988 NRPB Study into the Nuclear Veterans as no longer being independent as the Ministry of Defence...
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Invisible Enemy
Jan 11, 202425 min read
CHANV Newsletter - 8th January 2024
Open Newsletter, 08 January 2024, on behalf of the Combined History Archive of Nuclear Veterans. In support of the Nuclear Test Veterans...
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Invisible Enemy
Jan 4, 20243 min read
Radiation Exposure Claims
Following a recent Freedom of Information request by another organisation, the guidance for awarding AFCS claims has been published. For...
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Invisible Enemy
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Operation Bagpipes
The Loss of Canberra - WH.697 and the failure of the UK Government to include them in the NTV Medal. In 1954, the UK sent Canberra...
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Invisible Enemy
Dec 9, 202314 min read
NTV Medical Records Debate
AN OPEN LETTER ON BEHALF OF THE COMBINED HISTORY ARCHIVE OF NUCLEAR VETERANS (CHANV) In the interests of Freedom of Information expected...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 30, 20234 min read
NRPB Study - The MOD Rewrote the report
Following on from Susie Boniface's article in the Daily Mirror which exposed that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) had rewritten the initial...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 26, 20233 min read
Effects of external ionizing radiation on personnel - part two
Following on from our previous blog, we continue to analyse the report on the general effects of ionizing radiation. General Effects...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 25, 20232 min read
Effects of external ionizing radiation on personnel - part one
Our researcher has uncovered this document from 1968 addressed to Professor Butterfield in 1968. Which references a classified Ministry...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 17, 20233 min read
Infiltration - Government Response
On the 23rd of July we published a blog regarding the infiltration of the Nuclear Test Veterans Groups by Norcross. We asked the UK...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 7, 20235 min read
Remembrance
As we approach Armistice Day 2023, we remember those that have lost their lives and paid the ultimate sacrifice serving their country. We...
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Invisible Enemy
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Bury the Evidence
In a report dated 15th April 1986, entitled 'Known Burials, 1959 to 1967, related to UK Trials in South Australia', the shocking...
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Invisible Enemy
Oct 25, 20235 min read
Death of Dr C.E. Eddy
Just what happened to Dr C.E. Eddy when he was on loan to the Department of Supply as a member of the Safety Committee for the Monte...
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Invisible Enemy
Oct 20, 202318 min read
CHANV News Bulletin No 6
Issued 16 October 2023 On behalf of the Combined History Archive of Nuclear Veterans (CHANV). In support of the nuclear test veteran...
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Invisible Enemy
Oct 15, 202313 min read
Anniversary of Totem nuclear test
Today, 15 October 2023, is the 70th anniversary of the British atomic test Totem 1 – the first UK nuclear test on the Australian...
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