Servicemen in British N-tests 'not endangered'

Servicemen ordered to walk and crawl through a nuclear test site shortly after British authorities set off an atomic bomb were not endangering their health, a top radiation scientist said in New Zealand today.

The New Zealand government has called for reports on whether the health of seven New Zealand officers involved could have been damaged by their participation in bomb tests at Maralinga, southern Australia, in 1956 and 1957.