Fissionline COMMENT

Britain's Nuclear veterans after 40 years of fighting and campaigning have been awarded a 'commemorative' medal, a modest dollop of charity cash and few platitudes from the government.

It is not much for a movement that promised s much but ended up in bitte in-fighting and division. What the veterans deserve was a full judicial enquiry, compensation and an apology for nuclear bomb tests which decimated their lives and left a terrifying genetic legacy for their offspring.

Politicians and others, however, are hoping to sweeten the bitter pill by promising to "make a fuss" of the veterans when the medals are handed out King Charles might even be inveigled to take a hand in the proceedings. In this wa the Establishment hope the troublesome nuclear veterans, will finally be consigned to history. But it would be wrong to do so for the same reasons it would to dismiss the suffering of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki whose survivors were described as "the most important people living", by Robert Holmes, Director of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima Holmes was not referring to those affected by the blast and heat. He was talking about those afflicted by what became known as the "atomic plague": radiation sickness and illnesses passed on to unborn children and those yet to be conceived

This was the most terrifying manifestation of the technicalogical evil of the atomic bomb and the one the authorities were most frightened of. The politicians were able to redemption by arguing that nuclear power was a source of unlimited cheap energy and prosperity.

But no matter how hard they tried, and they tried very hard indeed, they could never declare that man-made radiation, even at very low levels, did no harm.

So the genetic effects of radiation poisoning was brush aside the death of 100,000 people at a stroke in a nuclear strike by proclaiming it a deterrent against future wars. The physicists who created the monster sought covered up. Statistics were bent and warped and ditched and discounted to hide the true scale of the atomic plague.

Similarly the British Government obfuscated and downplayed the effects of radiation on servicemen who witnessed the bomb tests. But.what is even worse is that they did not even consider the plight of the children of those servicemen even though they are part of that unique cohort of "the most important people" that Holmes talked about They hold in their DNA pioneer these new frontiers of science and medicine until the truth emerges; Fissionline will continue to unmask the British Government's coverups of what really happened at the bomb tests. The so-called "nuclear community" appears content, proud even, to accept a commemorative medal and a few pieces of silver. gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster he offered the Government's equivalent of a medal: shiny words, expressions of sorrow and platitudes.

The Kop, however, were having none of it.

Burnham, now mayor of Greater Manchester, was hardly into his stride when a single strident voice rang out: "Justice for the 96 " secrets that must be explored especially now when advances in DNA research means we can delve deeper than ever before into the frontiers of our knowledge. Fissionline will continue to

It was the starting pistol for a roar of rage and defiance that shook the stadium, rocked the nation and boomed and reverberated all the way to Westminster.

That roar of defiance was irresistable and couldn't be ignored. The Brown Government caved in and ordered an inquiry.

The result was that new evidence was unearthed, official lies were uncovered, culpable forces were named and shamed The Government under David Cameron was eventually forced to issue a grovelling apology.

That spirit of defiance is the only thing that can now save Britain's nuclear veterans. Fissionline is not the Kop but we like them have truth and justice on our side. We will continue to shout as loud as we can on behalf of Britain's nuclear veterans and their children.

Fissionline, however, would rather follow the example of the Spion Kop of Liverpool fame.

When Government Minister Andy Burnham stood before 30,000 Liverpool supporters

On our front page today, surrounded by pictures of tragic victims of Britain's nuclear bomb testing programme we proudly echo the words of Winston Churchill when Britain faced its darkest hour: "NEVER GIVE IN. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.