Cancers from US nuclear testing set to double: study

FALLOUT: Hundreds in the Marshall Islands have developed cancer as a result of US bomb tests, and many more are likely to contract the disease

AFP , MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS
Monday, Apr 18, 2005,Page 7

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A US study has found that the number of cancers caused by hydrogen bomb testing in the Marshall Islands is set to double, more than half a century after the tests were conducted in the tiny Pacific nation.

The study by the US government's National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimated 530 cancers had already been caused by the tests, particularly the explosion of a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo on March 1, 1954.