A-bomb diary bolsters compensation claims

Survivors of Britain's cold war atomic bomb tests have received a major boost in their battle for compensation following the discovery of a secret journal written by a senior Royal Navy officer. The observations of the leading medical officer on a British warship ordered into the radioactive fallout of a nuclear bomb test reveal his profound concerns that the crew's health was in grave danger. His on-board journal, disclosed publicly for the first time as evidence in a legal fight for compensation,...