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Amelia Searson and Peter Barr

Montebello Islands nuclear test research finds radiation still present 70 years after blast

Decades after an atomic bomb exploded on remote islands off Western Australia's coast, ex-serviceman Jim Marlow can still picture what he saw from 10 kilometres away.

"It frightens the s**t out of you because you couldn't say you expected it because you didn't, you didn't know it was coming," he said.

"A loud bang followed by a rumble … and you see the smoke [and] sand starting to build up and it goes up and up and up and lines the sky."

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