Hiroshima and here : reflections on australian atomic culture / Robin Gerster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

University, Monash.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear energy.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2020.

Summary:

This study provides a cultural history of Nuclear Age Australia. The author examines the country's role as a weapons testing site, its ambition to join the postwar nuclear club of nations, the heated controversies surrounding uranium mining and nuclear power, and the rich complexity of Australian cultural response to the fact and possibility of atomic destruction.

Contents:

Introduction: Exile on Uranium Street Part I: The Aftermath Chapter 1: Hiroshima around the Corner: Payback and Portent Chapter 2: Going to Ground Zero: Australians in Occupied Japan Part II: Australia's Place in the Nuclear Empire Chapter 3: Our Atomic Home: the 1950s Chapter 4: The Nuclear Blues: Since the 1960s Part III: Commemoration and Prophecy Chapter 5: Hiroshima Revisited: Remembering and Representing "the Bomb" Chapter 6: Doom Town: Imagining the Nuclear Destruction of Australian Cities Conclusion: Apocalypse, and Other Ends

ISBN:

1-66699-784-6

1-4985-8760-7

OCLC:

1501679626