Ministry of Defence Report On Nuclear Test Veterans Condemned Health: Armed Forces

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A CRUCIAL Ministry of Defence (MoD) health study that deprived thousands of nuclear test veterans of compensation was condemned by scientists as a "lemon", the Sunday Herald can reveal.

Critics have accused the MoD of designing the study to fail so that it wouldn't have to pay out millions of pounds to help veterans who claimed to have suffered ill-health as a result of radiation from nuclear explosions. Now there are fears that a new study of veterans and their offspring, planned by the MoD, could be similarly flawed.

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Ministry of Defence Report On Nuclear Test Veterans Condemned Health: Armed Forces

Between 1952 and 1962 Britain and the US exploded 47 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere around A...

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