Following our example

Preston Truman, longtime advocate for nuclear “downwinders,” is reporting that the U.S. government is not the only government that has dragged its heels on providing compensation for cancer and leukemia victims of nuclear testing.

“The British government has ruled out paying … compensation to Australian soldiers deliberately exposed to nuclear bomb testing at Maralinga in South Australia 61 years ago,” Truman said. “Of the British and Australian veterans who were involved in the testing, and the Aboriginal people in the area at the time of the blasts, only 29 Aboriginal people have ever received compensation from the Australian government and veterans continue to struggle to obtain the medical support they need.”

Compensation to victims of Nevada testing has been oft-promised but has come exceedingly slow.