Mayor presents medal to son of nuclear test 'victim'
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for a public inquiry into the Christmas Island nuclear bomb tests that some people claim caused the premature death of hundreds of veteran soldiers. Mr Burnham said: ‘We are still not at the point where the full truth has been told.”
“No-one told them where they were going or what they would be doing there, or what they would be involved in.” He said they were given orders on a particular day to muster on the beach in rows to sit on the beach and look out to sea, but when they saw the white flash, they had to turn their backs. "Some didn’t go to plan. Each one was different. They gathered samples and materials and they were sent back to the UK for testing and analysis.”
Martin told how his dad died at 55-years-old. But before that he had answered a newspaper advert asking if anyone had been to Christmas Island.
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