Does your fallout badge work? What was it like to witness a nuclear bomb explode?Veterans fondly recall uncertain early days of Britain’s nuclear testing program in four-film series from Plym to Pamlico exhibition
Humanity
December 13, 2022
Screenshot of the British Nuclear Testing Veterans Association nuclear testing film, part of the Plym to Pamlico exhibit. British Nuclear Testing Veterans Association
Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, UK
until March 12, 2023
From flying through a mushroom cloud to collect radioactive samples to waking up in a tent full of invasive crustaceans, a new series of films reveals what it was like to take part in Britain’s nuclear testing program in the 1950s and ’60s.
Four short films mix animation with images captured during the action of…