Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan
TBM9781742234281
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ISBN:
9781742234281
Author:
Elizabeth Tynan
Edition:
1st edition
Publisher:
NewSouth
Place:
Sydney NSW
Year:
2016
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
392 pages
Book Type:
SECONDHAND
Period:
20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Partial date due slip on inside page. Minor wear to book corners and edges.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017
In September 2016, it was 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
In 1950, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them, leaving the public entirely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision.
After earlier tests at Monte Bello and Emu Field in 1956, Australia dutifully provided 3200 square kilometres of South Australian desert to the British Government, along with logistics and personnel.
How could a democracy such as Australia host another country's nuclear program amid the Cold War? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals how Australia allowed itself to be duped.
Maralinga was born in secret atomic business and has continued to be shrouded in mystery decades after the atomic thunder stopped rolling across the South Australian test site.
This book is the most comprehensive account of the whole saga, from the time that the explosive potential of splitting uranium atoms was discovered to the uncovering of the extensive secrecy around the British tests in Australia many years after the British had departed, leaving an unholy mess behind. (publisher blurb)
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