Group: Illicit Tests Involve Radiation

Anti-nuclear campaigners claimed that Britain has been carrying out radiation experiments on people for nearly 40 years without properly explaining the risks. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Britain’s leading antinuclear pressure group, said the tests involve volunteers inhaling, eating or being injected with a number of radioactive substances. CND Chairwoman Janet Bloomfield told a news conference in London that the tests began in 1957 and are ongoing. Britain’s Defense Ministry confirmed that human radiation experiments had been carried out but said they were all ethical. “All studies involved volunteers. They have been subject to proper medical safeguards and with the full knowledge of the persons concerned,” a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said. CND said it would publish a report with full details of its allegations.