Fallout continues 70 years after British atomic tests
Seventy years ago Yami Lester was playing outside with his friends at Wallatinna Station in remote South Australia...
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Seventy years ago Yami Lester was playing outside with his friends at Wallatinna Station in remote South Australia...
When we recall the British atomic bomb tests in Australia, most of us think of Maralinga, still a byword for imperial indifference to Country and people. Few remember Emu Field – even though, as Elizabeth Tynan shows, the 1953 Totem 1 and Totem 2 detonations there manifested an almost identical hubris.
The British atomic tests at Emu Field in South Australia pre-dated Maralinga by three years. Largely forgotten, they remind us the costs of harmful political decisions are borne by the most powerless.