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Britain, Australia and the bomb : the nuclear tests and their aftermath

Author: Lorna Arnold; Mark Smith
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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This is the story of British nuclear testing in Australia during the 1950s. Britain's first 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 information in this edition includes: new declassified material from the National Archives; more on the nature of the weapons being tested and the interrelationship with the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lorna Arnold; Mark Smith
ISBN: 1403921016 9781403921017 1403921024 9781403921024
OCLC Number: 70673342
Notes: Revised edition of: A very special relationship . 1987.
Description: xiv, 322 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents: 1 Atomic Policies and Policymakers 1 --
2 Why Australia? 17 --
3 Hurricane --
1952 29 --
4 Totem --
1953 49 --
5 A Pregnant Pause: 1953-56 73 --
6 Maralinga --
A Permanent Proving Ground 87 --
7 Mosaic --
1956 106 --
8 Buffalo -1956 138 --
9 'There Must be Further Trials to Come': Weapons Planning, 1956-57 172 --
10 Antler and After 189 --
11 Kittens, Rats and Vixens 215 --
12 The Maralinga Range after 1963 235 --
13 Health and Safety and the National Radiological Protection Board Studies 254 --
14 In Retrospect 268 --
Appendix A Memorandum of Arrangements between the United Kingdom and Australian Governments 287 --
Appendix B Memorandum Respecting the Termination of the Memorandum of Arrangements between the United Kingdom and Australian Governments of 7 March 1956, concerning the Atomic Weapons Proving Ground-Maralinga 291.
Responsibility: Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith.
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