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Subject *** "PERTH - AUSTRALIA" A NUCLEAR TARGET -Time Jump Back To 1980

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Perth could face increased risk of Soviet nuclear attack under plans to allow US warships to be based in Australia, cabinet documents for 1980 reveal.

But the then Defence Minister Jim Killen had earlier told parliament that Australia, a strong US ally, was likely to be a nuclear target in any case.

Cabinet papers - released by the National Archives of Australia under the 30-year rule - show how the government of Malcolm Fraser moved to expand the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

That expansion included explicit offers to the US to home-port US Navy warships at the Australian naval base at Cockburn Sound, Western Australia.

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