title: British atomic tests in Australia.
abstract: The United Kingdom and Australia have reached agreement on the British payment for cleaning up the Maralinga (South Australia) site at which the UK tested some of its atomic weapons in the 1960s. The tests were conducted amid great secrecy and only in recent years has the truth about the health hazards fully emerged. The peace movement opposed the tests and its stand has been vindicated. Also vindicated have been the claims by Aborigines that more damage was done by the tests than was earlier admitted.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suter
mesh_terms: D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001315:Australia; D003219:Confidentiality; D005390:Fires; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009689:Nuclear Warfare / Q000266:history*; D011210:Power Plants / Q000266:history; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D011847:Radioactive Fallout