Christmas Island veterans receive nuclear testing medals
By Isaac Ashe & Steve Beech, BBC News, Derbyshire, 16 May 24 Derbyshire veterans who conducted nuclear tests for the British armed forces in the 1950s have been recognised at a ceremony. Operation Grapple saw a series of British nuclear weapons tests carried out close to Christmas Island, in the Pacific Ocean, between 1957 and…
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