• Australia's Dark Nuclear History

  • Jan 24 2024
  • Length: 16 mins
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Australia's Dark Nuclear History

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  • You watched Oppenheimer didn’t you?
    Do you remember that scene when everything goes dead silent as Oppenheimer’s bomb detonates?
    Even if you didn’t watch the movie..
    Thousands of tests just like this were carried out by America, the Soviet Union, and other countries in the decades following the Manhattan Project.
    In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country to harness the explosive power of nuclear energy. But the poms needed somewhere to test their new weapons.
    As England’s former convict outpost with vast expanses of land far from watchful eyes, Australia was the perfect place.

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