First-of-its-kind exhibition on Britain's nuclear testing opens to the public
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A first-of-its-kind museum exhibition focused on Britain's nuclear bomb testing has officially opened to the public today.‘Into the Atom' is dedicated to the RAF crews who were ordered to head into the sky minutes after detonation and take measurements of the bombs, flying through their heavily radioactive mushroom clouds.Located at the Wings Museum in West Sussex, it's the first permanent exhibition about Britain's cloud samplers in the UK.It features the testimony of those veterans who went up into the air and lets visitors discover their stories for themselves.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say RAF 76 Squadron is one of the crews highlighted at the museum.
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Working as part of Operations Grapple Y and Zulu Flagpole, they were ordered to fly through the detonations of two of the biggest bombs dropped near Christmas Island at three megatons and one megaton respectively.Flight Lieutenant Joe Pasquini flew through those tests and is remembered by Founder of LABRATS International, Alan...
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