-Caveat Lector-
Australia has, it seems, always been the place for interesting testing of unusual
devices. And a place where one can find many anomolous things and events. Certainly
our relationship with the Australians is full of secrets and strange associations.
On Mon, 18 June 2001, William Shannon wrote:
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>LANG="0">Nuclear bomb may have been tested in Australian rainforest</FONT><FONT
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>Declassified Australian government documents reportedly suggest a nuclear
> <BR>bomb may have been detonated in a tropical rainforest in northern Queensland
> <BR>at the height of the Cold War.
> <BR>
> <BR>The documents are reported in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine.
> <BR>
> <BR>They show that Britain, the United States and Australia set off a 50-tonne
> <BR>bomb in the rainforest at Iron Range in north Queensland in 1963 as part of a
> <BR>secret military experiment codenamed Operation Blowdown.
> <BR>
> <BR>Its detonation was designed to test how the rainforest would react to such an
> <BR>impact.
> <BR>
> <BR>But while the Australian documents describe the blast as testing the effect
> <BR>of a nuclear explosion, the British government says it was a conventional
> <BR>bomb designed to simulate an air-detonated nuclear device.
> <BR>
> <BR>However, declassified records in the National Archives of Australia describe
> <BR>Operation Blowdown as "an investigation into the effect of nuclear explosions
> <BR>in a tropical forest". (06:54:57 AEST)
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