Fallout : Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia / Roger Cross
- Bib ID:
- 944138
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cross, R. T. (Roger T.)
- Description:
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- Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, c2001
- xii, 226 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1862545235 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In the 1950s, the Australian government agreed to let the British government test atomic bombs in South Australia's northern deserts. The Australian public was assured there was no risk from radioactive fallout, but Hedley Marston, a CSIRO biochemist, conducted experiments to prove the government was telling lies.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 213-219.
- Subject:
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- Marston, Hedley R. (Hedley Ralph), 1900-1965
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing
- Radioactive fallout -- South Australia -- Maralinga
- Radioactive pollution -- South Australia -- Maralinga
- Defence - Missile and weapons testing - Nuclear weapons
- Environment - Pollution and hazardous substances
- Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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