On this day in 1952, Britain tested its first atomic bomb at Montebello off the Australian west coast, devastating thousands of lives in an instant. Nuclear testing has a long history of causing suffering not just to those who were exposed to radiation at the time of the tests, but also to their children and succeeding generations. Nuclear weapons do not keep us safe, as stories like those of Douglas Hearn and Eric Barton, both UK nuclear veterans, prove the only way to avoid their devastating c