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US conceives a morning-after-the-blast-before pill

Military officials in the United States are expressing enthusiasm about an experimental drug that they say could help protect troops, police officers and emergency medical personnel against nuclear weapons or "dirty bombs."
The drug appears to offer significant protection from radiation sickness.
"We want it on the fast track," said Navy Admiral James Zimble, a top military health official who is president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. "We've been very encouraged by the very positive results" of tests on animals.
Radiation specialists said tests of the drug on mice, dogs and monkeys suggest that it will work in people and won't prove toxic.
Since the 1950s, military researchers have scrutinised thousands of compounds in a search for something that could protect troops in a nuclear war.