Nuclear Fallout Victims

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Recently France after much denial for decades have finally agreed to compensate victims of Nuclear Fallout for the series of tests that it carried out first in Algeria and then in French Polynesia in the Pacific. Up to 150,000 civil and military people were affected. France is the first country after USA to announce such a policy. But does any compensation override the pain of the slow death that is inflicted upon the victims exposed to radiation and also the agony their families had to go through. But still it is a step in the right direction. When I was going through the news I started to search for Nuclear Testing history. Firstly I found that a lot of the testing earlier used to be atmospheric which means they affected a lot many more people than any government can probably compensate. Also the largest nuclear device ever tested(by USSR) had an yield of approx 57 Megatons which is 10 times that of all warheads used in World War 2. It is scary to imagine what will be left of the earth if two major nuclear powers were to go to war?