Britain, Australia and the Bomb

Britain, Australia and the Bomb

Author	Lorna Arnold Mark Smith
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2006
Pages	322 pages
ISBN	978-1-4039-2101-7
OCLC	76350829
Dewey Decimal	355.8

The mushroom cloud resulting from the Operation Hurricane detonation at the Montebello Islands.

Britain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath is a 2006 book by Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith.^[1] It is the second edition of an official history first published in 1987 by HMSO under another title: A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapons Trials in Australia. The book uses declassified material that has become available in the two decades prior to the book's publication. It covers the clean-up operations in the Maralinga Range and epidemiological studies on the health of the atomic test participants.^[2]

Lorna Arnold was a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and Institute of Contemporary British History. Mark Smith is a Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton.^[3]

See also

• Nuclear tests in Australia
• Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up
• McClelland Royal Commission

References

1. Britain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath by Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.322, ISBN 978-1-4039-2102-4
2. Britain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath
3. "Britain, Australia and the Bomb". Archived from the original on 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2008-12-23.