A victory for the vets would destroy the current ionizing radiation risk model and open the floodgates for more claims
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July 13, 2013 in -Mailing List, Fukushima, depleted uranium. by EMFacts
From Olle Johansson:
EXPOSED : Health threats of ‘safe’ levels of radiation covered up by Anglo-American establishment in nuke (read: non-ionizing EMF exposure) test ; vets fight for pensions
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by: Anna Bragga
(NaturalNews) A pensions case has become the site of a vicious battleground between the Anglo-American establishment and a British scientist in a row over accepted safe levels of radiation exposure.
It began in 2011 when a group of 16 veterans of UK nuclear bomb tests in Australia and Christmas Island applied for pensions on the grounds that their illnesses (and those of their children and grandchildren) were most likely caused by particulate uranium inhalation.
In a tale with more twists than a John Grisham novel, the veterans have had their appeals quashed after being forced to change their firm of solicitors and their expert witness – international radiation authority and Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, Dr. Chris Busby, who has a track record of winning five similar cases in a row.
The veterans, originally represented by Rosenblatts Solicitors, had commissioned Dr. Busby to provide evidence. But Rosenblatts suddenly pulled out of the case in December 2012 after funding provided by the Royal British Legion dried up. Washington-based Hogan Lovells International – a firm with a history of representing government and pharmaceutical companies, quickly filled the gap.
Coincidentally, at the very same time, Dr. Busby had obtained access to secret nuclear test reports by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), revealing information of significance to the case. He had also by then written 12 reports showing new evidence of the link between internal radiation exposure to uranium, the main component of all the bombs and a range of ill health effects.
Dr. Busby states:
“Evidence from photographs taken at Christmas Island showed that the Grapple Y bomb had sucked up enormous amounts of sea water which rained out as black rain. The black rain was black because the bomb, according to a secret document, was made of 4 tons of uranium.
It was the uranium particles that were the most likely cause of the cancer and other health problems in the veterans and the genetic damage and malformations in their children and grandchildren. This was exactly like the uranium effects in Iraq and in the Gulf War veterans and their children.”
A victory for the vets would destroy the current radiation risk model and open the floodgates for more claims
If the court were to allow the evidence, a victory is more likely, setting a legal precedent for some 900 other veterans waiting in the wings.
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Re: UK Vets/Atomic Bomb Exposure/Seek Pension
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Britain's nuclear test veterans ARE the victims of a genetic curse, new research reveals
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Oct 18, 2014 21:00 By Susie Boniface
Scientists have finally confirmed that Britain’s nuclear veterans ARE the victims of a genetic curse.
After six decades of denial it has been proven many service-men ordered to watch bomb tests during the Cold War passed on the effects of deadly radiation to their children.
Research – first reported by the Sunday Mirror in 2007 – which shows that their offspring have 10 times the normal rate of birth defects has finally been accepted by the scientific community.
The study proves:
- Wives have THREE times the rate of miscarriage
- Children are FIVE times more likely to die as infants
- Babies are THREE times more likely to be stillborn
- Veterans' grandchildren EIGHT times more likely to have birth defects
- Grandchildren of veterans TWICE as likely to get childhood cancer
- And the most shocking finding of all is that the problems are likely to last at least 500 years, or 20 generations.
Victims of a genetic curse
The study was carried out by Dr Chris Busby while he was a Fellow at the University of Liverpool.
He found a statistically high rate of defects among veteran families indicating a “genomic instability” in their DNA, something also seen in animals after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
The publication this week of his groundbreaking study in a peer-reviewed medical journal means the Ministry of Defence stands alone in denying a link between Britain’s bomb tests and the high numbers of disabled children.
Meanwhile it has been six months since Prime Minister David Cameron promised to consider the veterans’ bid for a £25million benevolent fund to help meet their medical needs.
He is the 12th Prime Minister to have considered, and so far ignored, the veterans’ claims since our first atomic test in 1952.
Around 22,000 men, many on National Service, were ordered to take part in the tests in Australia and at Christmas Island in the South Pacific in the 1950s.
They witnessed hundreds of test detonations of atomic and hydrogen bombs and radio-active detonators.
After RAF pilot Eric Denson was ordered to fly through mushroom clouds of hydrogen bombs on sampling missions in 1957, he received the equivalent of 12,000 X-rays to his brain and later killed himself after suffering years of headaches.
Today 37 per cent of his descendants – including great-granddaughter Ella, 20 months, who is awaiting surgery for a malformed kidney and can barely eat – have birth defects.
His widow Shirley, who has campaigned for recognition for 30 years, said: “We always knew the MoD were waiting for us old ones to die and hoping the problem would go away. This research is the silver bullet which means they cannot ignore us any longer.”
Dr Busby said: “Recent research shows uranium – which fell to earth in rain and dust after the blasts – causes genetic effects at very low radiation doses. It binds to DNA and amplifies the radiation damage.”
This “scrambled DNA” can then be passed on to future generations, causing random mutations.
Dr Busby added: “The main finding is that the grandchildren are suffering at almost the same rate as the children of veterans.”
Tory MP John Baron, who leads the campaign in Parliament, said: “The acceptance of Dr Busby’s report adds further weight to the campaign.
“Britain has a moral obligation to its test veterans and their descendants, especially when compared to how other countries treat their nuclear veterans. A benevolent fund would be a fitting tribute.”
On Friday the MoD emailed our reporter claiming Dr Busby’s work had not been peer-reviewed.
After we provided them with evidence his research HAD been verified, they said: “[Other] genetic studies have been carried out on the children of atomic bomb survivors since the 1940s.
“They looked at birth defects, still births, cancer incidences and chromosome abnormalities, but no statistically significant increase has been seen.”
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[ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/br ... ms-4460976 ]
Oct 18, 2014 21:00 By Susie Boniface
Scientists have finally confirmed that Britain’s nuclear veterans ARE the victims of a genetic curse.
After six decades of denial it has been proven many service-men ordered to watch bomb tests during the Cold War passed on the effects of deadly radiation to their children.
Research – first reported by the Sunday Mirror in 2007 – which shows that their offspring have 10 times the normal rate of birth defects has finally been accepted by the scientific community.
The study proves:
- Wives have THREE times the rate of miscarriage
- Children are FIVE times more likely to die as infants
- Babies are THREE times more likely to be stillborn
- Veterans' grandchildren EIGHT times more likely to have birth defects
- Grandchildren of veterans TWICE as likely to get childhood cancer
- And the most shocking finding of all is that the problems are likely to last at least 500 years, or 20 generations.
Victims of a genetic curse
The study was carried out by Dr Chris Busby while he was a Fellow at the University of Liverpool.
He found a statistically high rate of defects among veteran families indicating a “genomic instability” in their DNA, something also seen in animals after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
The publication this week of his groundbreaking study in a peer-reviewed medical journal means the Ministry of Defence stands alone in denying a link between Britain’s bomb tests and the high numbers of disabled children.
Meanwhile it has been six months since Prime Minister David Cameron promised to consider the veterans’ bid for a £25million benevolent fund to help meet their medical needs.
He is the 12th Prime Minister to have considered, and so far ignored, the veterans’ claims since our first atomic test in 1952.
Around 22,000 men, many on National Service, were ordered to take part in the tests in Australia and at Christmas Island in the South Pacific in the 1950s.
They witnessed hundreds of test detonations of atomic and hydrogen bombs and radio-active detonators.
After RAF pilot Eric Denson was ordered to fly through mushroom clouds of hydrogen bombs on sampling missions in 1957, he received the equivalent of 12,000 X-rays to his brain and later killed himself after suffering years of headaches.
Today 37 per cent of his descendants – including great-granddaughter Ella, 20 months, who is awaiting surgery for a malformed kidney and can barely eat – have birth defects.
His widow Shirley, who has campaigned for recognition for 30 years, said: “We always knew the MoD were waiting for us old ones to die and hoping the problem would go away. This research is the silver bullet which means they cannot ignore us any longer.”
Dr Busby said: “Recent research shows uranium – which fell to earth in rain and dust after the blasts – causes genetic effects at very low radiation doses. It binds to DNA and amplifies the radiation damage.”
This “scrambled DNA” can then be passed on to future generations, causing random mutations.
Dr Busby added: “The main finding is that the grandchildren are suffering at almost the same rate as the children of veterans.”
Tory MP John Baron, who leads the campaign in Parliament, said: “The acceptance of Dr Busby’s report adds further weight to the campaign.
“Britain has a moral obligation to its test veterans and their descendants, especially when compared to how other countries treat their nuclear veterans. A benevolent fund would be a fitting tribute.”
On Friday the MoD emailed our reporter claiming Dr Busby’s work had not been peer-reviewed.
After we provided them with evidence his research HAD been verified, they said: “[Other] genetic studies have been carried out on the children of atomic bomb survivors since the 1940s.
“They looked at birth defects, still births, cancer incidences and chromosome abnormalities, but no statistically significant increase has been seen.”
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