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Allegations of atrocities in UK, USA nuclear radiation tests

Global changes ruining the world  September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

Babies and Stillborns Used in Nuclear Experiments British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments. According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strotium 90 in humans.

University of Chicago physician Willard Libby started “Project Sunshine” in 1955, appealing for bodies, preferably stillborn or newly-born babies, to test the impact of an atomic bomb fallout. Libby later received a Nobel prize for his research in carbon dating.In response to the reports, the Australian government launched an investigation into the claims on 5 June. The Observer, a British newspaper, also stated that British scientists also conducted tests on babies sent from Hong Kong and the research did not end until the 1970s.

A government spokesman for Hong Kong announced that his country will investigate further into the reports.(source: Reuters, 6 June 2001) Doctor Claims Disabled People Used as Human Guinea Pigs in Nuclear Experiments Suspicions that people with sever disabilities were used as human guinea pigs during British nuclear tests at the Maralinga Test Site in Australia in the 1950s were revived in June.
According to the allegations, a control group was flown to the British test site as part of an experiment on the effects of radiation on humans. The group died after being exposed to the radioactive fallout.The allegations were dismissed as unsubstantiated in a final report of a royal commission into British nuclear tests in Australia in December 1985.

However, Dr. Robert Jackson, Director of the Center for Disability Research and Development at Edith Cowan University in Australia, is concerned that the Royal Commission did not hear testimonials from pilots. Dr. Jackson first discovered the story in the 1980s when he was the Regional Director for the Western Australia Disability Commission.

In June, he was approached by a man who claimed to be a pilot and had flown a planeload of disabled people from the UK to Maralinga Test Site. The pilot told Dr. Jackson, “We didn’t fly them out again.” Former servicemen, who are also fighting for compensation for radiation exposure at the British nuclear tests in South Australia and Monte Bello islands, will further investigate the story.

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December 25, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive