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The names are idyllic, evoking heaven on earth: Primrose Island, Crocus Island, Bluebell Island. But this uninhabited scatter of white sandy beaches and azure lagoons on the edge of the Indian Occean is a crime scene in the most scandalous injustice ever inflicted on British troops by their own government. The Monte Bello islands were the site of the initial British atomic bomb test, the first in a series throughout the Cold War that exposed more than 22,000 unsuspecting National Servicemen to horrific radiation injuries - condemning thousands to lifelong sickness and agonising deaths. Soldiers and sailors lined up on the decks of dozens of ships from the British and Australian navies to witness the blast from just a few miles away on October 3, 1952, during a top secret exercise codenamed Operation Hurricane.

PERTER HITCHENS: Robert Oppenheimer's film about the nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer is not only bad, tumultuous, difficult to follow, and much too long. It helps to comprehend one of our times' most significant events. I'm taken by how so many people have raved over it. I endured it. The only reported critiques regarding the detonation of the first bomb on July 16, 1945, have been largely critical. What were these complainers expecting?A blast-wave in the cinema? Well, people seem to think that it is not exciting enough.