Culture May 14, 2022
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia
When we recall the British atomic bomb tests in Australia, most of us think of Maralinga, still a byword for imperial indifference to Country and people. Few remember Emu Field – even though, as Elizabeth Tynan shows, the 1953 Totem 1 and Totem 2 detonations …