BRITAIN’S Ministry of Defence should allow an immediate study of the health
risks facing survivors of chemical weapons tests it carried out until 1989, say
politicians and scientists.
The demands follow the publication this week of Gassed, a book
claiming that Britain deliberately exposed up to 30,000 servicemen to poison
gases in the world’s longest-running programme of chemical warfare experiments.
As New Scientistwent to press Wiltshire police refused to confirm or
deny reports that 40 deaths were now under investigation as a result of the
tests.
The author, journalist Rob Evans, claims that many of the tests done secretly…
