Nuclear_Copper

Matt Okuhara. Former UK police officer. Military veteran and wannabe author, occasional equestrian, university lecturer in Japan 🇯🇵

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Nuclear Copper - The Secret World of Nuclear Policing - Available now

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JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan signs nuclear deal with Rolls Royce to build modular reactors.

[Gun Samurai @_Gun_Samurai]

Time for something a little different… but it is still, gun samurai 😅

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If hōjutsu and The Way of the Gun is something that interests you, then you should give Gun Samurai a go. A Decade in the Matsumoto Castle Gun Corps.

https://t.co/ZzVdMiuDm8

[Nuclear_Copper @nuclear_copper]

Want a good war story?!
An Unlikley Infantryman in the Iraq War… Basra and Back!

When I went out there, I was the least likely infantryman in the world. I had to grow up quick and learn even faster… links in bio 🔗

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Nuclear sites have more than nuclear hazards. A lot of gasses and chemicals can cause oxygen depleted environments - where it is dangerous and very difficult to operate.

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Training with the UK’s Civil Nuclear Constabulary

Nuclear Copper - The Secret World of Nuclear Policing

Links in bio

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@RoyceWilsonAU Yup!

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@BobRoss22413 Seems pretty good to me. Luckily I never had to use it other than in training 🙏

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Tokyo SWAT.

Known as The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Assault Team, the SAT is the police’s unit for high risk situations such as hostage incidents, terror attacks and other events where a normal police response is not adequate. Luckily, in Japan, such incidents are rare.

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Training shoot with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Special Assault Team.

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@RoyceWilsonAU A watch fan?

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@McCainJack

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD

Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government.

In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found.

Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life.

The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for.

Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home.

Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed.

Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves.

In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation.

A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever.

Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up.

Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report

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@TheUCS473 I remember carrying a whole roll of that on top of everything else on CIC - just ‘cos 😖

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

No matter how many decades we are in this game, county police officers are always in awe of the sheer numbers the Met can put on the ground at a single incident. You are probably looking at half the response officers for an entire small county for that moped.

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@McCainJack

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@QIncorrect Definitely good enough for me 🙏

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Firefighter? Not really. But part of a fire crew. CNC officers who are deployed on escorts have to take part in a firefighting course.

If you’re interested in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, look up Nuclear Copper - The Secret World of Nuclear Policing or check out my bio 🔗