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New Zealand’s nuclear horror still not acknowledged say vets Stuff, Janine Rankin May 02 2021 Photos on a wall, names on a board and an academic study will ensure the radiation damage to 551 men who witnessed Britain’s nuclear bomb explosions in the Pacific is never forgotten. But what the New Zealand survivors of those blasts really want is an apology and compensation from the Government. The stories of the nuclear veterans and the subsequent heartache and illness affecting them and the off-spring of those who had families have been retold in Palmerston North this weekend. It was the third opening of Denise Baynham’s exhibition of the photographs and stories of navy veterans “Operation Grapple, We were There” at Te Manawa art gallery…………… ....
Janine Rankin14:21, May 02 2021 WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Veterans of the nuclear testing programme, Richard Bishop from Christchurch and Brian Harnor from Mount Maunganui, were in Palmerston North for the launch of a photo exhibition in their honour. Photos on a wall, names on a board and an academic study will ensure the radiation damage to 551 men who witnessed Britain’s nuclear bomb explosions in the Pacific is never forgotten. But what the New Zealand survivors of those blasts really want is an apology and compensation from the Government. The stories of the nuclear veterans and the subsequent heartache and illness affecting them and the off-spring of those who had families have been retold in Palmerston North this weekend. ....