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On this day, 3 October 1952, the UK conducted its first-ever atomic bomb test on the Monte Bello Islands, off the coast of Western Australia, with no concern for the Aboriginal people living nearby. Decades later a Royal Commission that admitted “The presence of Aborigines on the mainland near Monte Bello Islands and their extra vulnerability to the effect of fallout was not recognised by either [Atomic Weapons Research Establishment – UK] or the Safety Committee. It was a major oversight that the question of acceptable dose levels for Aborigines was recognised as a problem at Maralinga but was ignored in setting the fallout criteria for the Mosaic tests.”
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