Article: CURSE OF THE A-BOMB: THE DAMNING DOSSIER: We sailed under the huge mushroom cloud with the dust raining down on us.. my hood fell off and when the medics checked me the Geiger counter went crazy.(News)

FIRST there came the blinding flash, followed by the intense heat...and then a deafening whipcrack.

Radioactive mud and water were thrown thousands of feet into the air in an enormous mushroom cloud.

The bomb was twice the size of Hiroshima and was exploded in the hull of an old frigate in a shallow lagoon.

Nearly 2,000 soldiers witnessed Britain's first A-bomb test on the Monte Bello island of Trimoulle, 60 miles off the coast of Australia, on October 3, 1952.

Some believed they'd seen Armageddon, one likened it to an "oil painting from ...

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