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Britain's Ministry of Defence should allow an immediate study of the health risks facing survivors of chemical weapons tests it carried out until 1989, say politicians and scientists. The demands follow the publication this week of Gassed, a book claiming that Britain deliberately exposed up to 30,000 servicemen to poison gases in the world's longest-running programme of chemical warfare experiments. As New Scientist went to press Wiltshire police refused to confirm or deny reports that 40 deaths were now under investigation as a result of the tests.