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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 ...

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 ...

IT is one of South Australia’s most terrible chapters — the Maralinga atomic bomb tests. Now shocking new details have emerged about deformities suffered by the children of the tests’ veterans. PEOPLE ...

In the 1960s, visitors to Maralinga were human guinea pigs in a nuclear weapons test zone. Today, it's open to tourists. Tourists visit a former atomic-weapons test site at Maralinga, Australia.

Maralinga traditional owners are receiving the final piece of their homeland, and they hope to turn the former nuclear test site into a tourism mecca. A radioactive warning sign Maralinga village in ...

AVON Hudson is still fighting – but his battle for the rights of those exposed to deadly radiation at Maralinga in the 1950s and ’60s is becoming lonelier. The Australian Nuclear Veterans’ Association ...

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 ...

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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the ...