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Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

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Peggy Jones, widow of an Emu Serviceman, recalls her husband’s painful death from cancer years after exposure to an atomic blast. Sir Ernest Titterton, Professor of Nuclear Physics at ANU, says that the testing of nuclear weapons in Australia was safe.