In episode three: nuclear fear prompts thousands flood to Alice Springs in the 1980s to try and close Pine Gap and reveal its secrets. This time the woman are in charge and they don’t want Australia involved in nuclear war. As the decade unfolds, the protests get increasingly wild as protestors up the stakes. 📼 Next episode: • Pine Gap and the spy w... Full series: • Pine Gap: Spies in the...
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When America promised to build a space base in outback Australia in the middle of the 1960s, few suspected it would put Australia in the nuclear cross-hairs in decades to come.
That space base, just 18 kilometres south of Alice Springs, would become known as Pine Gap - the most secretive intelligence facility in the country.
In season three of ABC’s Expanse, host and Alice Springs journalist Alex Barwick goes back to the beginning to find out what on earth is happening in her backyard.
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