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After decades of pressuring for compensation, Ottawa announced Tuesday that "atomic veterans" - about 900 soldiers who were deployed at atomic-bomb test sites in Nevada half a century ago and showered with radiation - will be eligible for a special payment of $24,000.
The payment was quickly labelled "a joke" by the association representing the remaining veterans and their widows - some of whom have filed a class-action lawsuit against the government - and called an "election ploy" on the eve of an expected federal campaign.
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