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UK soldier's DNA 'scrambled' after being 15 miles from 1958 nuclear bomb test

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UK soldier's DNA 'scrambled' after being 15 miles from 1958 nuclear bomb test

Captain Hughes was just 19 when he was sent to Christmas Island in the South Pacific for Operation Grapple in 1958, where the UK detonated its largest-ever thermonuclear weapon in a shocking test

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