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Radioactive Fallout Radioactive Fallout, deposition on the surface of the Earth of radioactive particles, released into the atmosphere either by nuclear weapons or by discharge from nuclear energy installations. Public interest has centred particularly on the effects of fallout from the period of large-scale atmospheric nuclear-weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Various allegations of resulting ill effects were made for many years, but only in 1984 was a landmark legal decision reached when, in the United States, a federal judge in Utah ruled that 10 people had suffered from cancer because of government negligence concerning public exposure to fallout in that state. Another decision was reached in 1985 by the Pensions Appeal Tribunals of England and Wales with respect to a veteran of British atomic tests on Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the 1950s. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, information has emerged on the effects of...

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