$34.01
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2016
Summary
Atomic Thunder: Australia’s Nuclear Gamble
Winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History 2017
Winner of the CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017
In September 2016, it marked 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
In 1950, Austr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742234281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742234283 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Tynan |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
‘Just as witnesses to our A-bomb tests turned their backs on the blasts, Australia turned its back on the memory of one of the most diabolical times in our history. Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.’ -Phillip Adams
About The Author
Elizabeth Tynan
Elizabeth Tynan is a science writer and academic at the James Cook University (JCU) Graduate Research School in Queensland, Australia. A former journalist, she completed a PhD on aspects of British nuclear testing in Australia, and is co-author of the book Media and Journalism: New approaches to theory and practice now in its third edition.
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