Between 1956 and 1963, when the British government tested nuclear weapons in outback South Australia, Maralinga was home to thousands of soldiers and scientists. The land was taken from its ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Outback Australia isn't exactly the busiest place but around 70 years ago there were some big things ...

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 ...

Drawn from a dark period of Australia’s cold war-era history, ABC TV’s new series never quite finds the balance between light and shade Ewen Leslie struts with a pep in his step in Operation Buffalo, ...

It seems remarkable today but less than 60 years ago, Britain was exploding nuclear bombs in the middle of Australia. In the mid-1950s, seven bombs were tested at Maralinga in the south-west ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Over successive Sunday nights, the ABC has premiered two important television programs recounting the history of nuclear testing in Australia – the documentary Maralinga ...

Maralinga, the deserted former military base in South Australia, has become ground zero for an unusual type of vacation. In a country best known for its white beaches and coral reefs, Mr Matthews ...

When Prime Minister Robert Menzies agreed to top secret British nuclear testing in the South Australian desert, he paved the way for a series of massive explosions that contaminated vast tracts of ...

The clean-up of a former British atomic test site at Maralinga in South Australia was a success, Federal Science Minister Peter McGauran said. Detailing some aspects of a report into the $108 million ...

*This article contains images and names of people who have died. The burnt, barren trees in Blak Douglas’s Tjarutja Tragedy are bent, leaning to one side with their branches split in two representing ...