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BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA AND THE BOMB
THE NUCLEAR TESTS AND THEIR AFTERMATH |
| By: |
Lorna Arnold, Mark Smith |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£37.19 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230627331 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230627338 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
29 September, 2006 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the unique story of British nuclear testing in Australia during the 1950s. Britain's fist atomic test took place on Australian soil, and a further eleven explosions and a number of minor trials were made over the following decade. Updated from the original edition published in 1987, this new edition includes fresh material declassified from the national archives to give a fuller and richer picture of the test programme. New information has been added on the nature of the weapons being tested and the inter-relationship with the H-bomb tests at Christmas Island, together with two entirely new chapters on the contemporary controversies over the health of test veterans and the clean-up of the old test-range at Maralinga. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |