British nuclear bombs tests in Australia
Note the 70th Commemoration of the first British A-Bomb Test on mainland
Australia at Emu Field is coming up on 15th Oct,
so I have compiled a 2-page Briefer (attached):
"Call to clean-up Emu Field Atomic Test Site 70 years after the Black Mist"
Briefer by Independent Environment Campaigner David Noonan (12 Sept 2023)
Sub-Heading:
ALP adopts policy on A-Bomb Tests to assist affected communities and
remediate impacts.
(to print as a double-sided single A4 hand out sheet, and with some useful
imbedded links for reading on-line)
British nuclear bombs tests in Australia
Summary – British nuclear bomb tests in Australia
Flawed ‘clean-up’ of Maralinga
Call to clean up the Emu Field atomic test site (David Noonan, 2023)
Fallout from nuclear tests at Maralinga worse than previously thought (ABC, 2021)
Atomic fallout and the corruption of science
Human guinea-pigs in the British nuclear bomb tests in Australia
Body snatchers (illegal collection and testing of human tissues)
ARPANSA report on the body snatchers scandal, “Strontium-90 Testing Program 1957 – 1978 Use of Human Bone Tissue”
Maralinga − 60 years on (Jessie Boylan 2012 article)
Royal Commission 1983-84:
— Conclusions and recommendations (PDF)
— Volume 1 of the Royal Commission Report (PDF) (alternatively use this link)
— Volume 2 of the Royal Commission Report (PDF) (alternatively use this link)
Collection of articles by The Advertiser journalist Colin James (PDF) (for web-links to the same collection of articles from The Advertiser – click here.)
Australian Nuclear Map – information, photos, videos
Paul Langley’s detailed research on the nuclear bomb tests in Australia
Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, Irati Wanti (‘The poison, stop it’)
Book: Roger Cross, “Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British Bomb Tests in Australia”, Wakefield Press, 2001.
Australian Nuclear Veterans Association web archives – click here or here.
BBC ‘Fallout at Maralinga‘
“Nuclear weapons proliferation in South Australia 1945-1965”
National Archives of Australia information
Brian Martin, Nuclear Knights – book about some of those most responsible for the bomb tests – online here or here.
Links to various websites and other literature
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