Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story
Clip 2: Nuclear fallout
1 min 51 sec
Taken from the documentary Backs to the Blast, an Australian Nuclear Story (1981)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
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Curator’s clip description
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.
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