Reuter
LONDON-Radiation from nuclear weapons tests could kill millions of people in the coming centuries, says a report.
The study was commissioned by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
It said by the year 2000, about 430,000 people will die as a result of radiation absorbed from atmospheric nuclear bomb tests.
The report will be published today, the anniversary of the day the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
"Over the centuries to come, we estimate that 2.4 million people will die from cancer as a result of the legacy of atmospheric testing," the report says.
A man who helped develop the nuclear bomb in the 1940s and was British adviser to the commission that prepared the report said all nuclear weapons tests should be stopped.
"The doctors who compiled this report give you a simple prescription. Stop nuclear tests," Joseph Rotblat said at a news conference to announce the report's findings.
(text of August 6, 1991 The Province article)
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