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Author : Francis Robolham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920720384
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests in Australia written by Francis Robolham and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Arnold
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230627331
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Britain, Australia and the Bomb written by L. Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain, Australia and the Bomb tells the story of the unique partnership between the two countries to develop nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 1950s. This new edition includes fresh evidence about the weapons under development, the effects of the tests on participants, and the recent clean-up of the testing range.
Author : Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Report of the Royal Commission Into British Nuclear Tests in Australia written by Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health aspects of nuclear weapons; protection standards; operations; safety of Aborigines and role of W.B. MacDougall as Patrol Officer; future use of Maralinga lands; recommendations.
Author : Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526727587
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Atomic Thunder written by Elizabeth Tynan and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects. British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. How did it come to pass that a democracy such as Australia suddenly found itself hosting another country’s nuclear program? And why has it continued to be shrouded in mystery, even decades after the atomic thunder clouds stopped rolling across the South Australian test site? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals the truth of what really happened at Maralinga and the devastating consequences of what took place there, not to mention the mess that was left behind. Praise for Atomic Thunder “Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.” —Philip Adams
Author : Richard Gun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920720391
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests in Australia Vol.2: Mortality and Cancer Incidence written by Richard Gun and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides good evidence that Australian male veterans of the Vietnam War have an increased rate of cancer overall. There was an excess of 613 cancers; 88% of this excess consisted of lung cancers, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx cancers, prostate cancers, and melanomas. The pattern is not generally consistent across the Navy, Army and Air Force veterans, although melanoma, and to a lesser degree prostate cancer, were consistently elevated in all three groups.
Author : Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission Into British Nuclear Tests in Australia written by Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Grace
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733650554
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Operation Hurricane written by Paul Grace and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel. Then a tremendous crack like a whiplash passed directly overhead. I saw a mushroom cloud ... There was black and white smoke, orange and red flames ascending through the centre of the mushroom.' RAN Able Seaman Vince Douglas, participant in Operation Hurricane At 8.00 a.m. on Friday 3 October 1952, Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated in the hold of a surplus frigate, HMS Plym, moored in the Montebello Islands, 50 miles off the North West Coast of Western Australia. The blast vaporised the Plym, produced a mushroom cloud 2 miles high, and covered the islands and parts of the Australian mainland with fallout. The test, codenamed Operation Hurricane, was the culmination of years of top-secret planning in London and Canberra and months of clandestine preparations at the site. One of the largest peacetime military operations in Australian history, its success shifted the balance of power in the Cold War and briefly rejuvenated the fading British Empire. Painstakingly pieced together from declassified government documents and first-person accounts by surviving participants, Operation Hurricane tells the story of Britain's first nuclear test from the point of view of the men on the ground: soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians. It delves into the historical context of the Cold War and examines the controversial legacy of the atomic tests, including the impact of fallout on servicemen, Aboriginal peoples and the environment, and Australia's relationship with the United Kingdom.
Author : Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Nuclear Tests in Australia written by Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642487391
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Preliminary Nominal Roll of Australian Participants in the British Atomic Tests in Australia written by Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Milliken
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book No Conceivable Injury written by Robert Milliken and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details events surrounding atomic testing at Maralinga, including role of Patrol Officers W. MacDougall and R. Macaulay, and effects of testing on the Milpuddie family, D. Stevens, Y. Lester and others.
Author : Nic Maclellan
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461385
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Grappling with the Bomb written by Nic Maclellan and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.
Author : Roger Cross
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546608
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Beyond Belief written by Roger Cross and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative historical work provides a voice for the forgotten victims of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s. Raising disturbing questions about the authorities who conducted the tests, this investigative work reveals how successive British and Australian governments have denied their understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation in the 1950s. Uncovering scenarios in which government scientists employed to monitor the tests were given protective clothing, while military personnel and workers were left unprotected and exposed to a simulated theatre of atomic war, this work places Australia's forgotten atomic tragedy into a global context.
Author : Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 9781742234281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Atomic Thunder written by Elizabeth Tynan and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1950s Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to a series of British atomic tests in the deserts of South Australia. These top-secret tests offered no benefit to Australia and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision."--Back cover.
Author : Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642717207
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Bill 2006 (Provisions) written by Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher : NewSouth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742238386
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Emu Field written by Elizabeth Tynan and published by NewSouth Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field in October 1953 did a terrifying black mist speed across the land after an atomic bomb detonation, bringing death and sickness to Aboriginal populations in its path. Emu Field was difficult and inaccessible. So why did the British go there at all, when they knew that they wouldn’t stay? What happened to the air force crew who flew through the atomic clouds? And why is Emu Field considered the ‘Marie Celeste’ of atomic test sites, abandoned quickly after the expense and effort of setting it up? Elizabeth Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, reveals the story of a cataclysmic collision between an ancient Aboriginal land and the post-war Britain of Winston Churchill and his gung-ho scientific advisor Frederick Lindemann. The presence of local Aṉangu people did not interfere with Churchill’s geopolitical aims and they are still paying the price. The British undertook Operation Totem at Emu Field under cover of extreme remoteness and secrecy, a shroud of mystery that continues to this day. 'A must-read to understand a cold war history, an arrogant officialdom and an unfathomable desecration of Aboriginal land.' — Larissa Behrendt 'This important book brings back from the far edges of living memory the extraordinary story of Britain's atomic bomb tests in Australia.' — Henry Reynolds 'Tynan’s razor-sharp prose and forensic level historical research ensure that Emu Field will be remembered alongside Maralinga as sites of treachery, suffering, and anxiety on the long road towards healing.' — Lynette Russell 'Fastidiously researched and brimming with detail' — Books+Publishing
Author : Roger Cross
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1743050909
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Fallout written by Roger Cross and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallout is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country and contaminating many towns and communities, including Marston's beloved Adelaide. The dispute that ensued was perhaps the most acrimonious in the history of Australian science. Fallout tells us much about the nature of science and our society. It is about science in service of the bomb, and in service of self. Roger Cross tells a story that must make us ask the alarming question: could we be fooled again?
Author : J. L. Symonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of British Atomic Tests in Australia written by J. L. Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat no. 8505819.
