Article: My husband was used as nuclear guinea pig; Widow accuses MoD over Christmas Island bomb tests.(News)

Article: My family's health has been ruined by nuclear bomb ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... as a human guinea pig during nuclear bomb tests yesterday blamed the Government for ... Britain's first nuclear tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific in 1957. Mr Callender ... radiation. But he didn't talk about Christmas Island or the nuclear tests. ``I want the ...

Article: Feature: A relief at last for Fiji's Christmas ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 7, 2009 ;     676 words ... ... 1957 and six atmospheric nuclear tests at Christmas Island from 1957-1958. The tests included the detonation of two atomic bomb tests on Christmas Island and seven hydrogen bomb tests, conducted over the ocean near the two ...

Article: IN OUR PAGES 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1957: No More A-Bomb ...
International Herald Tribune;  November 13, 2007 ;     248 words ... ... YEARS AGO 1957: No More A-Bomb Tests Scheduled Byline: International ... no plans for further nuclear bomb tests "in the immediate future ... in the nuclear test series on Christmas Island, in the Pacific. Britain exploded ...

Article: Atom bomb tests also involved civilians
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  January 29, 2008 ;     358 words ... ... in the media in recent months renewed interest in nuclear bomb tests and the ever decreasing number of survivors. I have also ... experiments" was aboard a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker at Christmas Island, during which time three nuclear devices were detonated ...

Article: Nuclear bomb tests ruined my family's lives and now ...
Derby Evening Telegraph;  April 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... young men who stood on the beach at Christmas Island, unaware that what they were witnessing ... him blind. "When I returned from Christmas Island, I got married to Christine and ... condition are down to me being exposed on Christmas Island." The former RAF corporal served ...

Article: Grim legacy of island H-bomb tests; CAERNARFON: ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Britain's first atomic tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific. Norman Callender ... sparking huge compensation claims from Christmas Island veterans. ``But if America and ... strongly to raise the profile of the Christmas Island veterans' plight she says her father ...

Article: We both saw atom bomb tests..both our sons had gene ...
The Mirror (London, England);  October 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... became pals serving as guinea pigs on Christmas Island in the Pacific during Britain's ... Graham is 45. They blame their time on Christmas Island for their sons' deaths. A study ... I witnessed five bombs go off on Christmas Island - one of which was the equivalent ...