[CPEO-MEF] Nuclear testing in Australia - 50 years ago

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PM - 50 years since Maralinga nuclear tests

Reporter: David Mark
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
PM - Wednesday, 27 September , 2006

MARK COLVIN: Fifty years ago today, the British began testing atomic 
bombs on the Australian mainland.

The testing ground was at Maralinga, in the South Australian desert. The 
British detonated a total of 21 nuclear weapons in Australia during the 
'50s.

The Maralinga tests displaced the local Aboriginal people. But thousands 
more Aborigines were exposed to nuclear fallout, which they called 
"black mist", and many became sick or died.

The testing also exposed around 8,000 Australian military personnel to 
the radiation contamination. Around 2,000 of the veterans are still 
fighting for compensation from the Federal Government.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1750566.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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