The World - News from Dec. 6, 1985
Some Australians probably got cancer from the fallout from British nuclear tests in the 1950s, and excessive radioactive contamination still exists at the Australian test sites, a government-appointed commission said in Canberra. It called on Britain to clean up the sites so aborigines can return to their homelands. Britain exploded 12 nuclear bombs above ground in southern Australia and on islands off western Australia, conducting the tests “without any scientific knowledge of the hazards involved,” the commission said.
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