These families have paid an appalling price of grief and illness for seven decades, so why won't the government cough up for a medal?
Two years after Steven's death, John was diagnosed with pernicious anaemia - a sudden failure of his bone marrow to create enough red blood cells. He and Betty, fresh in their bewildered grief, struggled in every conceivable way as a result of Steven's death. "Psychologically, I've always believed I had something to do with Steven's death," he said. Steven's death may be unconnected to radiation, but the cloud that has followed the family since is. A medal says that the nuclear tests, subject to secrecy at the time and official obfuscation and denials ever since, really happened.
Source: Daily Mirror April 23, 2021 11:43 UTC
