Francis Pike

Britain’s nuclear test veterans are finally being remembered

The test of the first British nuclear bomb, in the Archipelago of Montebello (Credit: Getty images)
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Francis Pike
Francis Pike is a historian and author of Hirohito’s War, The Pacific War 1941-1945 and Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II.

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