Cold War Veterans Blog

British Nuclear Test Vets

Please take a minute or two to read this. It is not a chain or spam but a
genuine call for your help.



Were you or was your Father, Grandfather a participant in the British
Nuclear Testing Programme between 1952 and 1967? Or do you know someone
falling in to this category?



If this does not apply could you please help us by forwarding this email to
everyone you know. This is a genuine initiative more details are
available on our website http://bntvg2.fh50.com/ .



If the answer is yes then you need to know that the British Government has
just announced:

Children and grandchildren of servicemen involved in Britain's nuclear bomb
tests are to get medical help for the first time.

The families - who have 10 times the normal rate of birth defects - are to
take part in a landmark £500,000 study, it was announced last week.

On 20th April 2009 Veterans Minister Kevan Jones said there will be a
wide-ranging medical assessment of the families - which is expected to
lead to new research and therapies to help them.

He told Parliament money had already been put aside and that the work would
begin within weeks.

More than 20,000 servicemen were ordered to stand and watch as Britain
exploded hundreds of nuclear devices in Australia and the South Pacific
between 1952 and 1967.

Many of their children were born with twisted limbs, deformed bones, eye,
heart and teeth defects or blood and brain disorders.

Work has already begun to contact the families. The results of the study
are expected to be announced next year.

The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been the driving force in
getting this study launched and will continue to play a major role.

If you are a veteran or descendant please let us know – simply send an
email to bntva.g2@googlemail.com giving your contact details* (if you are
an existing member of the BNTVA please quote your membership number). If
you wish to join the BNTVA please put ‘JOIN’ in the subject line of your
email.

As a conservative estimate there should be at least 30,000 descendants out
there and we need to find them.

More information is available on http://bntvg2.fh50.com/ Please visit this
site.

The BNTVA website can be viewed on http://www.bntva.com/

Thank you for your time, please pass this email on.



*All information given in strictest confidence and will not be passed to
any other organisation or used for any marketing purpose, we will not send
unsolicited emails to any address you supply, Full Data Protection
Statement available at http://bntvg2.fh50.com/- please see the two web
links to find more about this Contact Initiative and the wider work of the
British Nuclear Test Veterans Association.