China’s nuclear tests killed 1.94 lakh people due to acute radiation exposure between 1964 and 1996
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China has conducted around 45 successful nuclear tests between 1964 and 1996, killing 194,000 people from acute radiation exposure. Peter Suciu, writing in The National Interest said that estimates suggest 194,000 people have died from acute radiation exposure, while around 1.2 million may have received doses high enough to induce leukaemia, solid cancers and foetal damage.