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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Benedict Smith

Government unveils plan to commemorate nuclear test programme veterans

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The Government has announced it will spend almost half a million pounds commemorating the “incredible service” of the veterans of Britain’s nuclear testing programme.

It comes on the 70th anniversary of Operation Hurricane, the detonation of a plutonium bomb in Australia which installed the UK as the world’s third nuclear power.

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