THIS ARTICLE WAS BOUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY AN AMERICAN VETERAN CALLED CARL YOUNG
Atomic bomb test veterans win right
to sue Ministry of Defence.
Britain's atomic test veterans have been given the green light to sue for compensation following a high court victory this morning. Around 1,000 servicemen who blame their ill-health on their involvement in Britain's 1950s nuclear tests want to sue the Ministry of Defence.
The veterans, who took part in the programme on the Australian mainland, Monte
Bello islands, and Christmas Island between 1952 and1958. They say that new
scientific evidence has shown links between exposure to ionising radiation, and
their conditions include cancer, skin defects and fertility problems.
Many of them are terminally ill and seven have died since the hearing at
London's High Court in January.
The Ministry of Defence, while publicly acknowledging the "Debt of gratitude"
owed to the men is fighting the multimillion-pound group action on the
preliminary issue that it cannot proceed because it was launched outside the
legal time limit.
The article was copied from http://www.mirror.co.uk/
The dynamic photograph were taken from an article called How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb in the California Literary Review by Peter Kuran in October 22nd 2007 http://calitreview.com/273