radioactive fallout from Cold War nuclear weapons tests throughout the world caused at least 15,000 cancer deaths in the us, revealed a us government study made public recently.

The health and human services department study also indicated that 20,000 non-fatal cancers among us residents born after 1951 could be linked to the above-ground weapons tests.

The study revealed that nuclear tests conducted in the erstwhile Soviet Union had a much wider repercussion on the us than previously known. It was also found that the us' and Britain