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Remembering the nuclear tests at Maralinga - When the black mist descended on the APY lands
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:29:59
Publish Date: 2025-08-08 08:30:00
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In 1953, in the APY lands of South Australia, two atomic weapons were exploded in the desert at a place called Emu Field. A young boy named Yami Lester remembers the ground shaking and a black mist coming over his family's camp. Yami passed away in 2017, but his daughter Karina Lester continues to speak up nationally and internationally about the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.
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