Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following video contains images of people who have died.On the 3rd of October 1952, the UK detonated its first atomic bomb and became the world’s third nuclear power. It was the first of 45 nuclear weapons detonated by the United Kingdom across Australia, Kiritimati, and the United States.There were over 22,000 British service personnel at these tests and an unknown number of local people – many of whom claim they were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation. America, France, Russia and China have accepted culpability for hurting their nuclear veterans. But the British Government has not. According to them, “the MOD does not accept that participants at the UK atmospheric nuclear test and weapons experiments were, as a result, exposed to ionising radiation that adversely affected their health.”The nuclear tests did their job. They ensured that Britain has kept place at the top table of world politics to this day. But 70 years on, the legacy of those test is still up for debate.