A LEGACY OF INHERITED CRIMINALITY
 
By revoking 70 years of inherited policy, will a principled settlement of nuclear test veteran community claims end the UK’s 1952 to 1967 nuclear scandal?
 
Dennis Hayden
 
I’ve been asked by many why I’ve written a follow-up so soon to The UK’s Nuclear Scandal, which was published in 2021. The reason is because the true history of Britain’s nuclear weapons test experiments from 1952 to 1967 and the legacy of its inherited criminality will not have final closure until it is fully recognised and accounted for.
 
Since 2021, much has happened very quickly. This impetus started in 2016, when the first and second generations of the nuclear veteran family community took control of campaigning to bring a positive change to the long-running problem of official and civil service denial – a denial that now appears to be coming to a satisfactory conclusion after 70 years.
 
This is due to a campaign jointly launched by LABRATS International and the Daily Mirror in early 2021 to directly petition the UK Prime Minister to meet with representatives of the nuclear test family community. (See chapters on 2017-2021 and 2022)
 
Dennis Hayden
18 April 2023