A rather sad story in the paper today about the use of a Royal Navy ship HMS Diana in the testing of the British nuclear bomb in 1956. For the purposes of "research" the ship was ordered to sail through the fallout area of the bomb detonation.
It's hard to think back to the set of circumstances that made this appear "a good idea". Britain was under pressure to get a deterrent? We wanted to know more about the effects? (surely WWII had provided plenty of evidence already).
Maybe that's just judging with hindsight, of course the story is most of the crew are suffering from cancers and now dieing off (or have died). The MOD won't provide compensation due to a legal argument about when claims can be lodged. It's shameful, I don't think there would be many people that would actually mind if taxpayers money were to compensate in some way their suffering.
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