Christmas Island Veterans Compensation

Bikini atoll and enewetak atoll a necklace of coral islands in the marshall islands was subjected to repeated nuclear testing campaigns by the u s.

Christmas island veterans compensation. Fiji pays compensation to soldiers exposed to christmas island nuclear test after british government refused to pay. Atomic veterans recieve 75 000 award for exposure to radiation from nuclear testing. Services veterans who claimed they were used as guinea pigs and exposed to nuclear testing in the 1950s won a landmark legal victory yesterday allowing them to seek more than 100m compensation. Operation crossroads 1946 operation sandstone 1948.

In addition veterans may have an atomic veterans cancer compensation claim if they were present within 6 months of certain nuclear test operations on christmas island and johnston island in the pacific at the nevada test site just north of las vegas or in the south atlantic including. Pacific test site or south atlantic test site. The british nuclear veterans are fighting for compensation. The veterans blame their ill health including cancer skin defects and fertility problems on involvement in britain s 1950s nuclear tests in australia the monte bello islands and christmas island.

Compensation for veterans affected by nuclear testing at bikini atoll. British nuclear test victims finally receive compensation from fiji. Scunthorpe veterans of nuclear test site christmas island says they did not know how dangerous the work they were carrying out was. A veteran who witnessed britain s atomic bomb tests in the 1950s is receiving compensation from the government after developing skin cancer.

That has been welcomed by the community but it is a million miles from the compensation that those veterans and their families deserve. Men were deliberately used as guinea pigs in a macabre scientific experiment and their health was sacrificed simply to prove our worth to america. The british nuclear weapon tests on kiritimati or christmas island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders. South pacific marshall islands bikini atoll enewetak atoll johnston atoll or christmas island.