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Maralinga is in the remote western areas of South Australia. It is about 460 km away from Adelaide. Maralinga is a radioactive place today. Maralinga was the secret site of the British nuclear tests in the 1950s. The area is about 3,300 km squared in area size. Maralinga tests happened between 1956 and 1963. Seven nuclear tests was tested at the location. Maralinga is also an Australian local government area which means anyone can enter and exit the area with their risk of life because according to the scientists the area is still radioactive
During the cold war, the British were really determined to upgrade nuclear weapons. The operation was codenamed ‘hurricane’ which was a secret operation was agreed between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies. …show more content…

The Anangu, Aboriginal people who lived in the area called Puyu. UK service men, Australian soldiers and civilians, including the indigenous people were all exposed to radiation. Illnesses such as cancer, blood diseases, eye problems, skin rashes, blindness, vomiting which are all symptoms of radioactive poisoning. Since there is remains of the radiation, there is also health issues still held at that destination.
The experiment accidents killed thousands of people and damaged the town they were living in. Some people doesn’t was to move from that place because they stated that their parents raised them here and it is a priority to live here. The explosions were really big and they destroyed the whole area. The people who were involved in this test didn’t know what they were doing until, it slowly killed them. Many scientists have died because of cancer and other diseases of the cause of radioactive surroundings that they are involved in during experiments.
Maralinga also held 700 subcritical tests which took a vast area of Maralinga which was really surprising. All the tests completed in the year

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