MOD 'CLUELESS' ABOUT NUKE TEST INFERTILITY.

Friends' desperate search for relatives of Christmas Island vet who died alone

- SUSIE BONIFACE

DEFENCE chiefs have admitted they have no idea how many men were rendered infertile by their Cold War radiation experiments.

The shocking admission came as it was revealed that yet another test veteran had died alone without family - and without receiving the medal promised by Rishi Sunak in November.

Alfred Trott, who died aged 87, served in the RAF for four years and was at the Operation Grapple atomic and hydrogen bomb tests off Christmas Island in the South Pacific in 1957 and 1958.

His friends are trying to trace his relatives to attend his funeral next month.

Many nuclear-test veterans found themselves unable to father children, or were too afraid of birth defects to try.