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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to conduct a full and thorough investigation into the effects, on servicemen and women, of the nuclear testing conducted off the coast of Christmas Island in the 1950s. More details
Submitted by Ian Clark of Local Government – Deadline to sign up by: 23 January 2009 – Signatures: 79
More details from petition creator
Between 1952 and 1967 the United Kingdom carried out a number of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean and at Maralinga, Australia, involving over 20,000 servicemen. Among these tests were the “Grapple Y” and “Grapple Z” series of six detonations at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean (November 1957–September 1958), of weapons many times more powerful than those discharged at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
* Of 2,500 men surveyed in 1999 30% of the men had died, mostly in their fifties.
* In their grandchildren spina bifida rates are more than 5 times the usual rate for live births in the UK.
* More than 200 skeletal abnormalities were reported.
* More than 100 veterans children reported reproductive difficulties.
(info taken from British Nuclear Test Veterans Association)
Current signatories
Ian Clark, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Dick King
- S King
- Matt
- Jason Jeffery
- Rick Burgess
- William Smith
- Sarai Walker
- Michelle Jones
- Ed Robinson
- E Sanders
- Richard Middleton
- steve clifford
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- susie boniface
- David Collins
- sharon van geuns
- Adrian Butler
- Claire McKeen
- J.G.Lowe
- Jeff Liddiatt
- Derek Heaps
- Robert P Smithg
- Alison Brown
- Natalie Windsor
- David Whyte
- Margaret King
- Vicci Johnson
- Michael Winterbourne
- Caroline Downing
- Margaret Banerjee
- Owen J Stevens
- Meryl Stevens
- Michelle Lunt
- Ian Wilson
- jean day
- BRIAN UNTHANK
- Julia Pollard
- Victoria Smith
- Mark Polard
- Peter Osborn
- Philip A Exley
- Jennifer Smart
- Debra Berkley
- Peter Barton
- Derick M Allen
- Danielle Caddick
- kenneth johnstone/christmas island 57 58
- Rob Levy,Check out MK-Ultra,and Porton Down,all people are expendable to those in power..
- John Baldry
- Karen R Thompson
- Kate Rix
- Alanna Johnson
- Sean Morris
- Lianne Hanson
- Bob Overy
- Keith Newton
- pamela hanson
- Philip Marcroft
- Laura Marcroft
- Simon Eccles
- Lisa Harding
- Ashley Ross
- Stephen Bell
- Stephen Smith
- Rebecca Wilshire
- Alan Unthank
- Paul Newton
- Danu Stratton-Kent
- Shaun Kenny
- Paula Fowler
- amanda coates
- David Whitaker
- a hewitt
- ROBERT NEAL
- Jennifer Hewitt
- N Gilchrist
- Hassan Elwidai
- stuart anthony
