Australian Geographic

Snapshot: Field of thunder

humanitarian crisis began building at Maralinga in remote western South Australia during the late 1950s, but it wasn’t until the 1980s that the world finally heard about it. On 14 May 1957, military personnel encountered an Anangu family camping near the crater of a recently detonated nuclear fission bomb – despite repeated assurances all Traditional Owners had been safely removed from the area. Knowledge of the discovery threatened to grind to a halt Britain’s nuclear testing program, and so for nearly

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