Speakers

Gordon Frederick Coggon – British Nuclear Test Veteran. Christmas Island 1957-1958
83 years old. Gordon was born in 1938 near Doncaster, witnessing the UK’s only true hydrogen bomb. After a long second career driving buses and HGVs, and having survived cancer and diabetes, Gordon finally retired at the age of 71. In 2020, aged 82, Gordon found himself locked down due to the Covid-19 pandemic and wrote a book – The Life of a Yorkshire Lad. (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Life-Yorkshire-Lad-Born-Doncaster/dp/B08P6G6GDX)
Gordon is a campaigner for LABRATS International and making action for recognition of the British Nuclear Test Veterans.
Videography by Eric Barton. Edited by Brian Cowden.

ICRC Vice-President since April 2018.
Gilles Carbonnier holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Neuchâtel and has worked in three main fields over the past 30 years: development economics, humanitarian action and international trade.
Since 2007, Dr Carbonnier has been a professor of development economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where he also served as director of studies and president of the centre for Education and research in Humanitarian Action. His expertise is in international cooperation, the economic dynamics of armed conflict, and the nexus between natural resources and development. Prior to joining the Graduate Institute, Gilles spent several years with the ICRC: he worked in the field from 1989 to 1991 as head of subdelegation in Ethiopia and Iraq and as a delegate in Sri Lanka and El Salvador, then at headquarters from 1999 to 2006 as an economic adviser. He was on the board of directors for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland from 2007 to 2012. Between 1992 and 1996, he was in charge of international trade negotiations (GATT/WTO) and development cooperation programmes for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

The Atomic Photographers Guild is an international collective of independent photographers dedicated to making visible all facets of the nuclear age. Founded in 1987 by Robert Del Tredici, Carole Gallagher and Harris Fogel, Guild members focus on the impact and legacy of the atomic age with an emphasis on nuclear weapons development, production, testing, and deployment—as well as the movements to abolish them. Members also document the nuclear power industry, reactor accidents, nuclear waste, irradiated landscapes and their populations, and the health effects associated with exposure to ionising radiation.
Website: http://www.atomicphotographersguild.org/

Association 193, created in 2014, is an apolitical organisation upholding Christian values with the mission of campaigning for the recognition of the nuclear issue and its consequences. Activities include campaigning and education to remember the French nuclear tests, condemning the “crime against humanity”, demanding that the French State officially apologize and provide just reparations through modification of the Loi Morin - the law governing compensation, and also calling for a local referendum and studies on transgenerational nuclear-related diseases. In order to meet the needs of the five archipelagos, Association 193 has a sub-committee dedicated to assisting the victims of nuclear testing in their applications for reparation as well as a committee for women.