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Atomic thunder : the Maralinga story /

In the 1950s Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to a series of British atomic test in the deserts of South Australia. These top-secret tests offered no benefit to Australia and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tynan, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2016.
Subjects:
Cold War (1945-1989)
Nuclear weapons > Great Britain > Testing.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > Australia > South Australia > Maralinga.
Radioactive pollution > Australia > South Australia > Maralinga.
Cold War.
Australia > Politics and government > 1945-1965.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1945-1964.
Maralinga (S.A.)
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
Politics and government.
Radioactive pollution.
Australia.
Great Britain.
South Australia > Maralinga.
1945-1965
Australian

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