Elizabeth Tynan - Atomic Thunder - The Maralinga Story

University of New South Wales Press Ltd

University of New South Wales

Sydney NSW 2052

AUSTRALIA

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© Elizabeth Tynan 2016

First published 2016

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Creator: Tynan, Elizabeth, author.

Title: Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story / Elizabeth Tynan.

ISBN: 9781742234281 (paperback)

9781742242446 (ebook)

9781742247830 (ePDF)

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Nuclear weapons – Great Britain – Testing.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of – South Australia – Maralinga.

Radioactive pollution – South Australia – Maralinga.

Cold War.

Australia – Politics and government – 1945–1965.

Great Britain – Politics and government – 1945–1964.

Maralinga (SA).

Dewey Number: 994.05

Design Josephine Pajor-Markus

Cover design Blue Cork

Cover images Landscape at Maralinga, 2007: Wayne England/Wikimedia

Commons. John L Stanier at Maralinga in protective clothing, with a camera also protected in a plastic cover [detail], c. 1950s: National Archives of Australia A6457, P214.

Extract from ‘The Boy in the Bubble’ , p. 11: Words by Paul Simon. Music by Paul Simon & Forere Motloheloa. © Copyright 1986 Paul Simon (BMI). All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission of Music Sales Limited.

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