[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: Britain's atomic veterans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer, nuclear bombs and dirty tricks

Chris Busby
The Ecologist (UK)
December 19, 2013


Following a campaign of dirty tricks a decisive case in Britain's  
nuclear test veterans fight for justice will reach the High Court in  
June 2014, writes Chris Busby. The case will also put on trial the  
dominant risk model for radiation and human health.

The United Kingdom Veterans of the Atomic Atmospheric Testing in the  
Pacific and Australia have always maintained that they suffered harm,  
including cancer and leukemia. The government has consistently denied  
this.

Its argument is that except for very few of them, no-one received a  
radiation 'dose' significantly different from natural background.  
This was recently affirmed by the new Minister when she refused to  
concede that the test veterans were any different from any other ex- 
servicemen.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2203464/ 
cancer_nuclear_bombs_and_dirty_tricks.html#

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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