The Resource Maralinga : the chilling exposé of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country, Frank Walker
Maralinga : the chilling exposé of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country, Frank Walker
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- Summary
- The facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing. During the 1950s-60s, with the blessing of Prime Minister Robert Menzies, the British government used Australia as its nuclear laboratory. They exploded twelve atomic bombs on Australian soil - at the Monte Bello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. Sixteen thousand Australian servicemen were guinea pigs. RAAF pilots were ordered to fly into nuclear mushroom clouds, soldiers told to walk into radioactive ground zero, sailors retrieved highly contaminated debris - none of them aware of the dangers they faced. But the betrayal didn't end with our soldiers. Secret monitoring stations were set up around the continent to measure radiation levels and a clandestine decades-long project stole bones from dead babies to see how much fallout had contaminated their small bodies - their grieving parents were never told. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's Maralinga is a must-read true story of scientists treating an entire population as lab rats and politicians sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of power
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780733631900
- Label
- Maralinga : the chilling exposé of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
- Title
- Maralinga
- Title remainder
- the chilling exposé of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank Walker
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- trueIndigenous Australians
- trueIndigenous Australians -- Maralinga Region, South Australia
- Maralinga (S. Aust.) -- History
- trueMaralinga Region, South Australia
- Nonfiction
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- Nuclear weapons -- Testing | Health aspects -- Australia | Maralinga (S.A.)
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing | Health aspects -- South Australia | Maralinga
- trueNuclear weapons testing victims
- trueAboriginal Australians -- Maralinga Region, South Australia
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- South Australia | Maralinga
- Radiation injuries -- Government policy -- Australia
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- Radioactive fallout -- Australia | Maralinga (S.A.)
- Radioactive fallout -- South Australia | Maralinga
- trueSouth Australia
- trueSouth Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Veterans -- Diseases -- Australia
- Veterans -- Medical care -- Australia
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Australia | Maralinga (S.A.)
- Atomic bomb -- South Australia | Maralinga -- Testing
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing. During the 1950s-60s, with the blessing of Prime Minister Robert Menzies, the British government used Australia as its nuclear laboratory. They exploded twelve atomic bombs on Australian soil - at the Monte Bello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. Sixteen thousand Australian servicemen were guinea pigs. RAAF pilots were ordered to fly into nuclear mushroom clouds, soldiers told to walk into radioactive ground zero, sailors retrieved highly contaminated debris - none of them aware of the dangers they faced. But the betrayal didn't end with our soldiers. Secret monitoring stations were set up around the continent to measure radiation levels and a clandestine decades-long project stole bones from dead babies to see how much fallout had contaminated their small bodies - their grieving parents were never told. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's Maralinga is a must-read true story of scientists treating an entire population as lab rats and politicians sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of power
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- Dewey number
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- Nuclear weapons
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- Maralinga (S. Aust.)
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- adult
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- the chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
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- Nonfiction
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- Nuclear weapons -- Testing | Health aspects -- South Australia | Maralinga
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- trueAboriginal Australians -- Maralinga Region, South Australia
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- South Australia | Maralinga
- Radiation injuries -- Government policy -- Australia
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- Radioactive fallout -- South Australia | Maralinga
- trueSouth Australia
- trueSouth Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Veterans -- Diseases -- Australia
- Veterans -- Medical care -- Australia
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Australia | Maralinga (S.A.)
- Atomic bomb -- South Australia | Maralinga -- Testing
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