Maralinga

   

Maralinga is a small town in the desert of South Australia, famous for nuclear tests that took place there in the 1950s

On September 27, 1956 the first of a series of nuclear bomb tests called "Buffalo" took place at Maralinga in the desert of South Australia.

The local Tjarutja aboriginal people were not effectively warned of the explosions and many suffered terrible after-effects from fallout. British and Australian servicemen were purposely exposed to fallout from the blasts, to see what happened. All these facts came out in a Royal Commission between 1984-1985. Previously many of the facts were kept from the public.

A 2003 cleanup exercise funded by the Australian and British governments has stabilised much of the more radioactive leftovers from the tests.

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