It has taken 65 years or more, but three veterans of Britain’s NuclearTest programme of the 1950s have finally received the medals they deserve. All three Kent veterans served on Christmas Island – now known as Kiritimati – in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1950s when Britain was developing its nuclear deterrent. All three lived through nuclear test explosions detonated a short distance from their bases and they watched the resulting mushroom clouds balloon before them. Today, their service was finally recognised as the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling, Cllr James Lark, presented them with the Nu…
