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A pensioner who says he was a "guinea pig" during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s is suing the Government. Ex-serviceman Derek Connelly, of Churchill Road, Kidlington, says he was made to stand just wearing his shorts and socks to witness nuclear and hydrogen bombs being set off in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago.
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Veterans from Lincolnshire who fear they were used as human guinea pigs in British nuclear tests have joined a legal fight for millions of pounds in compensation. Three former Cold War servicemen from the county have joined forces with the Atomic Veterans' Group, which has issued a High Court writ against the Ministry of Defence.
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A major scientific study into the families of soldiers used as guinea pigs in Britain's first nuclear tests shows they will suffer acute health problems for TWENTY generations. Relatives of up to 22,000 servicemen who witnessed tests in the 1950s have been cursed with massive genetic damage which will be passed on for at least 500 years.
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Government scientists ordered British troops to crawl through radioactive fallout in a deadly series of experiments. They had to scramble on their hands and knees through the dust left by four nuclear bombs to "ensure as much contamination as possible gets on to their clothes".
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A GROUP of veterans insist they have been wrongly denied repatriation benefits because the Howard government refused to believe they were involved in a 1952 nuclear test. Now they have photographs they say prove they were there. Former national serviceman Mike Rowe, who served aboard the frigate HMAS Murchison, said he and others had spent the past five years trying to set the record straight about their participation in the nuclear test at Monte Bello Island off the West Australian coast in October 1952.
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EX-SERVICEMEN from Suffolk and Essex who claim the Government treated them like “guinea pigs” during Cold War atomic bomb testing are fighting for compensation which could run into millions of pounds.
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