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Beyond belief : the British bomb tests : Australia's veterans speak out / Roger Cross and Avon Hudson.
Van Pelt Library U264.5.A8 C76 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross, R. T. (Roger T.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radioactive fallout--Australia--Maralinga (S.A.).
- Radioactive fallout.
- Australia.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing.
- Nuclear weapons.
- South Australia--Maralinga.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Gives a long ignored voice to the veterans of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. Their chilling stories raise many disturbing questions, both about what happened then, and the effects on their lives in the decades that have passed.
- Contents:
- Setting the scene
- Monte Bello 1952: Operation Hurricane
- Emu Field 1953: Operation Totem
- Monte Bello 1956: Operation Mosaic
- Maralonga 1956: Operation Buffalo
- Maralinga 1957: Operation Antler
- Deception and ignorance
- Maralinga: the minor trials 1958-1962
- The first clran-up 1967: Operation Brumby
- The latest clean-up
- France: we are not alone
- One man's burden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-200).
- ISBN:
- 1862546606
- 9781862546608
- OCLC:
- 62116806
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