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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 12:59 PM Apr 2015

Britian's dirty A-bomb secret - Australia

Unbelievable - article gives history of when England carved out an area the size of England in Australia for its A-bomb testing. The horrific events unfolded - using soldiers and the native aborigines as human guinea pigs.



"British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen were deliberately and repeatedly exposed to nuclear hazard. Dressed only in boots and shorts and using scrubbing brushes and buckets filled with detergent, they were instructed to strip and service and clean radioactive aircraft and other equipment. Wearing gumboots and suits made variously of rubber, wool and cotton, they were ordered to walk, crawl or drive through places where Hiroshima-size bombs had hours before roasted the saltbush and red desert sand into three-inch thick glass, called “bomb glaze”.

The dead were subject to experimentation as well. After a cloud of strontium-90 drifted towards Adelaide following a detonation in 1958, the bodies of deceased Australians, especially of young children and still-born babies, were secretly harvested."


http://www.johnkeane.net/maralingas-afterlife/

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