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Fallout : Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia / Roger Cross.

Fallout' is the true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country, contaminating towns and communities, including Adelaide. Cross tells a story that ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cross, R. T. (Roger T.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Marston, Hedley R. > (Hedley Ralph), > 1900-1965.
Nuclear weapons > Australia.
Nuclear weapons > Great Britain.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
Radioactive fallout > Australia > Maralinga (S.A.)
Radioactive pollution > Australia > Maralinga (S.A.)
Marston, Hedley R. > (Hedley Ralph), > 1900-1965
Nuclear weapons.
Radioactive fallout.
Radioactive pollution.
Australia.
Great Britain.
South Australia > Maralinga.
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Summary:Fallout' is the true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country, contaminating towns and communities, including Adelaide. Cross tells a story that makes us ask the alarming question: could we be fooled again?
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
ISBN:9781743050927
1743050925
9781743050903
1743050909
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.

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