Read and Download eBook Full
Author: C. Leah
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-12-03
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1137477393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a historical and strategic analysis of the nuclear dimension of the US alliance with Australia, Australia's relationship with nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and US extended nuclear deterrence.
Author: L. Arnold
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-09-29
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0230627331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain, 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.
Author: Roger Cross
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781862546608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative historical work provides a voice for the forgotten victims of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s. Raising disturbing questions about the authorities who conducted the tests, this investigative work reveals how successive British and Australian governments have denied their understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation in the 1950s. Uncovering scenarios in which government scientists employed to monitor the tests were given protective clothing, while military personnel and workers were left unprotected and exposed to a simulated theatre of atomic war, this work places Australia's forgotten atomic tragedy into a global context.
Author: Wayne Reynolds
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamination of the effects of Australia's post-World War II bid to help develop nuclear weapons in conjunction with the UK. Demonstrates that this failed endeavour shaped both foreign and domestic policy until the end of the 1950s. Focuses on the crucial role of nuclear weapons in the strategies of successive Australian governments. Provides a new perspective for historical issues such as the American alliance, the security crisis and the Petrov affair, the Cold War and the Maralinga tests. Includes notes, select bibliography and index. Author is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Newcastle. Previous titles is 'Doc Evatt'.
Author: Roger Cross
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1743050909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFallout is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country and contaminating many towns and communities, including Marston's beloved Adelaide. The dispute that ensued was perhaps the most acrimonious in the history of Australian science. Fallout tells us much about the nature of science and our society. It is about science in service of the bomb, and in service of self. Roger Cross tells a story that must make us ask the alarming question: could we be fooled again?
Author: Barbara Pocock
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1742241042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime poverty is a problem for many Australian households and work is the main culprit. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and longer into old age. While maximising our productivity and enhancing our professional skills, we must also raise our children well, care for our aged, be involved in our community and shrink our carbon footprint a footprint shaped by the patterns and habits of our work, social obligations and households. What is it costing Australians to try and do it all? And what is it costing our families and communities? Incisive and thought-provoking, Time Bomb throws light on poor urban planning, workplace laws and practices, care obligations and other issues that rob us of time and put our households under pressure. And it looks at how work affects our response to the greatest concern of our time our environmental challenges.
Author: Nic Maclellan
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1760461385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.
Author: Peter Grose
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781742376073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement?the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day?courage, mateship, determination, and improvisation?the dark side of the story lingers: looting, desertion, and a calamitous failure of Australian leadership. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten weeks earlier. There was a difference: they dropped more bombs on Darwin, killed more civilians in Darwin, and sank more ships in Darwin than in Pearl Harbor. It remains the single deadliest event in Australian history. Yet the story has remained in the shadows. Absorbing, spirited, and fast-paced, An Awkward Truth is a compelling and revealing story of the day war first came to Australia, and of the underarmed and unprepared soldiers and civilians who faced their toughest test on home soil.
Author: Peter Grose
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781742692500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942.
Author: Nevil Shute
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-02-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307476987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....
