Unexploded Ordnance sign along the Gunbarrel Highway - why?

That's actually a bit clever, LOL. Whatever works, I guess!

That little track wasn't on my itinerary, so no I didn't go up there, sign or no sign. :)

Pics or it didn't happen! :)

Maybe the RAAF or USAAF lost a bomb out there?

Don't laugh - the U.S. & Russian military forces have lost 50 atom bombs! - and most have never been recovered! [:-O

The Cold Wars missing A-bombs

Broken Arrows - the worlds lost Nuclear weapons

Cheers, Ron.

And don’t forget that Japanese sect experimenting with bombs on that outback sheep station.

They were the ones that let off the sarin gas in Tokyo.

"...U.S. & Russian military forces have lost 50 atom bombs! - and most have never been recovered!"

Are you sure you read the article? That's not what it says.

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Maybe the U.S. can locate them, bring them home and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

Candace - The U.S. has admitted to losing 6 nuclear weapons completely, and the Russians refuse to divulge how many they have lost.

Even at that, I wonder what we haven't been told! Govts of any persuasion are not particularly good at revealing the truth for many decades - if at all.

It is possible there could be unexploded ordnance out there - after all, much of Central Australia has been used for especially secretive armaments testing, since the early 1950's, when all that area was regarded as being "uninhabited wasteland" suitable for rocket and bomb testing.

Cheers, Ron.

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All of that area was once proclaimed as part of the Woomera Prohibited Area, now reduced to a smaller zone extending from the Woomera Rangehead. In the "rocket test days" the trials did not reach that far from the launchers, other than Blue Streak which was not armed. Since those rocket days in the 50's and 60's the military have used the WPA for all sorts of activities usually confined to the current WPA zone and various parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland but it is possible that they "played around" in the area of Candace's description. Who knows what our Brothers in Arms get up to?

Besides, Candace's sign is marked as authorised by the "Dept. of Environment and Conservation" rather than by a military authority so maybe it was only a Ranger who mislaid a bullet somewhere.

"Who knows what our Brothers in Arms get up to?"

Who knows indeed! For example, in the early 60's, the US Dept of Defense was interested in performing joint chemical and biological weapons testing in Australia. I had never heard of this before. I stumbled across this document today while searching for info about the Emu site.

Document in the Nat'l Archives of Australia

Apparently the tests never came to pass, though...Defence denial

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"Indeed"to be sure Candace. Thank goodness that the Chemical tests did not eventuate although Operation Blowdown did.

Interesting that the USA document referenced "Maralinga", albeit with a query to "Qld."
There is no "Iron Range" in S.A. And very little "tropical jungle" for that matter. lol
Perhaps someone just had Maralinga on their mind as a great place fore 'big bangs'?

For anyone interested, here are further links to this event....

Wikipedia

Dinnen Media Report

Incidentally Candace, I have just finished reading yet another book on Maralinga.... "Britain, Australia and the Bomb", Arnold and Smith.. Somewhat more explicit and perhaps impartial than the others and certainly excellent as a reference work.