THERE are few who can honestly say they witnessed a truly momentous, world changing event, but 69-year-old John Brewster from Hythe can rightly make that claim. In 1957 John, then serving in the Army, found himself standing on a beach, on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when he saw a sight, so fierce in its awe-inspiring power, that it has been indelibly etched on his mind for more than half a century. John was there when Britain exploded its first nuclear bomb on Christmas Island and he still vividly recalls the day which quite literally shook the earth. His account of the explosion and its aftereffects is dramatic in its understatement. John tells his story in the very matter of fact way of someone who is now unshockable. He has, after all, looked the unthinkable in the face. "We knew that a new type of bomb...
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