Atomic Thunder
An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects.
British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test ser...
An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects.
British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test ser...
