AUDIO: Nuclear Bomb Testing in Australia

AUDIO: The beginning of nuclear testing in Australia and the lasting effects https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/the-beginning-of-nuclear-testing-in-australia-and-the-lasting-effects/

Nuclear weapons were first tested in Australia by the British at the Montebello Islands on October 3 1952.

Elizabeth Po and Adrian Glamorgan of Perth’s community radio RTR FM’s Understorey program look at effects of these tests.

They hear from ex-serviceman Max Kimber, along with aboriginal elders, Uncles Glen Cooke and Kev Buzzacott, former WA Senator Jo Vallentine and Dr Peter Underwood from Medical Association for Prevention from War, along with Nancy Milne remembering her father’s courageous exploits as a journalist in 1952.

Understorey’s seven part series on the nuclear industry

December 18: Care or neglect? Fukushima’s silent fallout

December 11: From one disaster to another

December 4: Shorts and sandals nuclear policy

November 27: Regulating the nuclear village

November 20: Stay or go?

November 13: Geiger counting on a future

November 6: The aftershocks keep coming