Miyoko Watanabe had just walked out of her house in Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when she saw a flash of orange and yellow light.

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AN EX-SERVICEMAN from Leeds who was fighting for compensation over Cold War atomic bomb testing, has died.

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The widow of an Ottawa veteran of Cold War atomic tests says the federal government has turned a blind eye to the suffering the former soldiers are enduring. Peter Mitchell, who died on Monday after a 15-year battle with various cancers, is the second area veteran of the atomic bomb tests who has died within the past seven months.

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Nuclear bomb veteran John Waters is demanding justice 52 years after he says he was treated like "a guinea pig" during atomic bomb tests. Mr Waters is aged 72 now, and was one of about 300 servicemen on board the "ship of death", HMS Diana, which sailed into the blast zone of nuclear testing off the coast of northern Australia in 1956.

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