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'They poisoned us': grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing
At least 4 million premature deaths from cancer and heart disease are linked to global nuclear testing fallout, with impacts still felt decades later, Norwegian People's Aid reports.
- A new Norwegian People's Aid report, provided exclusively to AFP, attributes at least four million premature deaths worldwide to nuclear testing and says effects persist globally.
- More than 2,400 nuclear devices were detonated worldwide between 1945 and 2017, spreading contamination with the heaviest burden on communities near test sites in 15 different countries.
- Report co-author Magdalena Stawkowski said `Every person alive today carries radioactive isotopes from atmospheric testing in their bones,' linking ionising radiation to DNA damage and cancer.
- Survivors near test sites face elevated illness and congenital anomalies, while none of the nuclear-armed states has apologised and criticised mechanisms often limit liability, the report says.
- The report highlights secrecy and classified studies that have left victims without answers, noting the US 15-megaton Bravo test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954 vaporised an island and blanketed Rongelap about 120 kilometres away with fallout where children thought it was snow.
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