For more than half a century, successive British governments have covered up and lied about the devastating effects on servicemen forced to witness nuclear tests with no protection.
Over that time, not only have the majority of the 22,000 men involved died after leading a life in pain and desperation, but tens of thousands of their descendants have been born with deformities and developed unexplained cancers and tumours.
Now a new major scientific study to be presented to a parliamentary committee next month reveals the impact of those appalling tests in the South Pacific will continue throughout another 20 generations.
Today the Sunday Mirror tells how Louise Roberts waits in fear to discover if the child she is carrying will be healthy - for she lost her first baby because it was growing in the womb with a head and torso but no limbs.
Louise, 21, was born 30 years after her grandfather witnessed the atom bomb tests on Christmas Island. But the effects of the radiation he was exposed to were passed down to her unborn child.
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The other countries involved in the tests - the United States, Australia and New Zealand - have all accepted that the tests are behind their veterans' health problems.
Yet our government -- like the 13 previous British governments, Labour and Conservative - callously deny liability.
All the dwindling band of survivors want is recognition of what was done to them. That is the very least they are entitled to.
Gordon Brown says he wants to be the listening Prime Minister. No group of people more deserve to be heard than these men and their descendants.
