Sue Coleman-Haseldine was a toddler crawling around in the dirt when the winds brought the black mist. Her white nappies on the washing line were burnt.
It was in the 1950s when the British began testing nuclear weapons at Maralinga in the South Australian outback.
The legacy of the bombs dropped continues to haunt the 67-year-old Aboriginal grandmother.
"We weren't on ground zero at Maralinga, otherwise we would all be dead," she told AAP.
"I was born and grew up on a mission at Koonibba, but the winds came to us."
Ceduna, the main township before the Nullarbor, is the cancer capital of Australia, Ms Coleman-Haseldine says.
Sue Coleman-Haseldine at the U.N. headquarters in New York earlier this year, where negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons were held. Source: AAP/Kyodo
She's had her thyroid removed and will be on medication for the rest of her life. Her 15-year-old granddaughter is also battling thyroid cancer. There are birth defects and cancers right across the community.
"It's changed our genes," she said. "These diseases weren't around before the bombs."
On December 10, Ms Coleman-Haseldine will be in Oslo for the Noble Peace Prize award ceremony, where The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is being recognised for its work to achieve a treaty-based ban on nuclear weapons.
ICAN, an alliance of non-government organizations that strongly advocate for an international nuclear weapon ban treaty, have collaborated with Aboriginal survivors of the Maralinga nuclear tests in South Australia, to raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons.
"The experience of Indigenous survivors of nuclear testing in Australia and worldwide has played a crucial role in the campaign to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons", an ICAN spokesperson told NITV News at the time the Nobel Prize win was announced.
"The testimonies of survivors and their descendants provide the frontline evidence for why these weapons of mass destruction have no legitimate role in our world."
So far, 122 countries have adopted the treaty, excluding Australia and countries with nuclear weapons - the US, UK, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.
Only three countries have ratified the treaty and 50 are needed for it to become international law.
In Norway, Ms Coleman-Haseldine will tell the story of her people and their contaminated land.
"You've got to keep the past alive to protect the future," she said.
Ms Coleman-Haseldine hopes Australia will reverse its opposition and sign the treaty.
The Turnbull government has ruled that out but the Labor Party will debate the issue at its national conference next year.
With AAP
