Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. CHRIS UHLMANN: It's been more than 50 years since the British Government set off nuclear bombs at ...

Australia stood by while Britain’s military elite trashed tracts of its landscape then left. Menzies had said yes without even consulting his cabinet It is 27 September 1956. At a dusty site called ...

While the Maralinga Tjaratja people are excited and relieved about this week's land hand-back, the veterans who served at the British nuclear testing site are still fighting for compensation.

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Only a handful of members are left of an Australian Army unit that built the camps at the top secret Maralinga nuclear bomb facility — most have died of cancer. More than 60 years on, a survivor ...

Over fifty years ago, the British government tested nuclear bombs in the remote desert near Maralinga, South Australia. Now, after decades of radioactive cleanup, the site is open to tourists.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As we watch an American presidential campaign descend into crazed conspiracy theories it seems clear that the Age of Information is also ...

After years of denial and deceit, the British government has admitted that military personnel were used in radiation experiments during the nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the ...

HE was the officer in charge of the first official clean-up of the controversial nuclear testing site. This year, because of the approval for the Maralinga Tjarutja people, handed back their lands by ...

Nuclear tests conducted in South Australia from 1956 resulted in swaths of countryside obliterated and decades of highly contaminated land The atomic age reached Maralinga with a blinding flash. At ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons ...