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The Secret of Emu Field : Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia /

Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field in October 1953 did a terrifying black mist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tynan, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kensington, NSW : NewSouth Books, 2022.
Sydney : NewSouth, 2022.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Great Britain > Testing.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > Australia > South Australia.
Radioactive pollution > Australia > South Australia.
Cold War.
Atomic bomb > Blast effect.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
Radioactive fallout > Physiological effect > Australia > South Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > South Australia > Emu > Effect of radioactive pollution of soils on.
Australia > Politics and government > 1945-1965.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1945-1964.
Radioactive fallout > Physiological effect.
Australia.
South Australia.
History.

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