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H-bomb ‘guinea pigs’ claim compensation

H-BOMB ‘GUINEA PIGS’ CLAIM COMPENSATION

By John Ingham NUCLEAR test veterans will this month launch their case for compensation, claiming they were used as guinea pigs. About 22,000 British servicemen from attended H-bomb tests in Australia and the South Pacific between 1952 and 1958.

Every other country that had servicemen at the tests has provided them with help.

Campaigners say many British veterans died young, had diseases like cancer or saw their wives suffer miscarriages or give birth to deformed children. Next week lawyers representing 1,000 survivors and their widows will launch an action for compensation which could cost the Ministry of Defence millions.

Veterans accuse the MoD of stalling, knowing the longer the process goes on the fewer will be left alive.

Daily Express | UK News :: H-bomb ‘guinea pigs’ claim compensation

January 13, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium