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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: 207
Petition update, 13 May 2009
You signed a petition asking 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."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19259
Prime Minister's Office
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
- Ken Wright
- 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
- 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
- Tom Milburn
- Joe McConnell
- kathrine kelly
- Julie Frank
- Laurie Beckett
- Lily T
- N.J.Christopher
- R Hewitt
- Claudia Higgins
- Mrs James
- emma taylor
- Charlotte Reynolds
- Margaret Swann
- M Karanasos
- Sally Ann Reed
- Debbie Porter
- karen russell
- claire mcevoy
- elaine robinson
- Lisa Artley
- jenette beckett
- Lucie Hudson-Slack
- Richard Burnham
- lucie morgan
- Jen Johnson
- Nathanael LeWarne
- caitlin page
- Paul Quinn
- Gerald Haley
- C J Hazard
- G J Delves
- Anne-Marie Mason
- Samantha Feeley
- Charles G. White
- Pete Marshall
- Niall Hughes
- Marie McGovern
- Michael Finn
- Philip Gemmell
- Thomas Connolly
- Hannah Dickson
- Kelly Smith
- W Kirkwood
- marcel cernota
- Tamzin Little
- Ian McPherson
- H E Newaland
- O Newland
- shakil ahmed
- Heather Louise Watson
- Elaine Johnstone
- Darren Stead
- Christopher Hall
- Terri Pollard
- Ian Watson
- Allyson Park
- Stephen Lyons
- lewis unwin
- Gavin Wright
- sandra thomas
- caroline scaife
- mark scaife
- Linda Foulkes
- Sarah Barrie
- William Pope
- Stuart Smith
- Colin Pearson
- kelly marie sharpe
- R M Jones
- sarah everett
- Karl Harrison
- Peter Boyt
- Melissa Phibben
- sean aiken
- Paul Paterson
- Andy Relf
- Stephen Lowe
- sarah howson
- Chris Marlow
- David Woodman
- Alan Eaton
- Robert Nowell
- Muriel Crowther
- Hayley Groves
- Stewert Dean
- Rebecca Bradbuey
- Samantha Reshat
- Tom Duckwall
- Karen Spivey
- paul shearsby
- KAREN GREENSLADE
- Piers Goodman
- adam shearsby
- P.W.Phibben
- Symon Otani
- memz canan
- m bradshaw
- Luci Pollard
- Elizabeth Ashford
- Lee Ackerman
- Jessica Phibben
- nichola reed
- Sophie Andrews
- sir stephen pratt
- Louise Shaddick
- Angela Baker
- Kenneth Helps
- Patricia
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- Adam Sturtridge
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- Peter Moore
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- Warren Kelly
- Juliette Russell
- Joanne Couch
- Claire Tanner
- Benjamin Tanner
- brian jon unwin
- Keith Hannant
- Peter Turner
