Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and their Aftermath

by L. Arnold, M. Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403921024
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/29/2006
Series:	International Papers in Political Economy
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

LORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History. She is author of Britain and the H-Bomb (2001) and Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident.

MARK SMITH works in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, where he specializes in British nuclear history and ballistic missile proliferation. Prior to arriving at Swansea, he was a Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface to Second Edition Atomic Policies and Policymakers Why Australia? Hurricane 1952 Totem 1953 A Pregnant Pause 1953-6 Maralinga: A Permanent Proving Ground Mosaic 1956 Buffalo 1956 'There Must Be Further Trials to Come': Weapons Planning 1956-7 Antler and After Kittens, Rats and Vixens The Maralinga Range after 1963 Health & Safety and the NRPB Studies In Retrospect

Editorial Reviews

'This compelling book gives an authoritative and admirably lucid account of British nuclear tests in Australia in the 1950s and provides an invaluable guide to the environmental and health consequences of those tests. It is very good to have it reissued and brought up to date.' - David Holloway, Stanford University, USA

'It is written in a very clear and readable style, and is well worth reading for interest alone...It provides an essential and authoritative reference for anyone seriously interested in the nuclear tests and the subsequent controversies' - Professor Chris Hamer, Journal of Contemporary History

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