THE simmering debate over whether servicemen who witnessed nuclear tests in the 1950s are more likely to get cancer is unlikely to be settled by the latest major study.
Â鶹´«Ã½ has learned that the study, by Britain’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), will conclude that the cancer rate among test veterans is no higher than normal. But even before it has been published, the analysis has been attacked as “biased” by the researcher whose investigations prompted it. The number of veterans affected may be small, but at stake is whether the government should give them compensation.
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