When Ken McGinley was 19 he witnessed British nuclear tests in the Pacific, by the age of 21 he had been invalided out the army. He suffered constant ill-health, and was unable to have children since witnessing the tests in the 1950s. Read more
Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout. The move leaves the UK isolated in its policy of rejecting liability for illnesses suffered by test participants.