Site Chosen In Australia
VAST RANGE IN DESERT Received Sunday, 7 p.m. CANBERRA, Jnly 14. The Woi'ld 's largest rocket and atom bomb testing rabge is to be established in Australia. The range will occupy 200,000 square miles of desert country in Central Australia -and will be 1000 miles long and 200 miles wide. Before t'e'sfs begifi the 'atea will be cleared of. noniadic native tribes and cattle. It is tmderstood that materials essential in the manivfaeture of atoni bombs have been found in the area. The township of Ooldea on the east coast railway line, is the likely \ headqtiarters' for the experimentation,
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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103Site Chosen In Australia Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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