| Vindplaats: | B 3.60 |
| Titel: | Maralinga |
| Auteur: | Adrian Tame & F.P.J. Robotham |
| Samenvatting: | During 1956/57, the British Government conducted a series of A-bomb tests at Maralinga, 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. As the radio-active clouds rose above the Australian desert there was universal acclamation. Now(1982), almost thirty years later, patriotic enthusiasm has changed to angry demands for explanations and compensations for Britain's ill-conceived rehearsal for Armageddon.
For the first time, Maralinga tells the full story of the Btitish A-Bomb tests, the effects of the fallout on the Aborigines and the military personnel and the efforts of the Australian Nuclear Verterans' Association to obtain compensation for illness and death caused by the explosions.
Maralinga is a disturbing story of blind patriotism, military inefficiency, callous, officialdom, governmental deceit and cover-up. The radio-active legacy of Maraling will be with Australians for the next 100 years.
This Book is all the more timely now that the present Federal Government is allowing America to upgrade Pine Gap and to make Darwin airfield available to B-52s. The follies that took place at Maralinga in the 1950s are a sombre message to us all. |
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| Uitgever: | Fontana / Collins |
| Jaar van uitgave: | 1982 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Aantal aanwezig: | 1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0 00 636391 1 |
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| Ondertitel: | British A-Bomb Australian Legacy |
| Foto's: | Er staan zwart wit foto's in het boek. |
| Opmerkingen: | In Archief. Er staan enkele grafieken en tabellen in het boek. |
| Aantal pagina's: | 272 |
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| Trefwoorden: | Maralinga, Australië, veteranen, stralingsziektes, atoombom, gezondheid, effecten, straling, toxicologie, kernwapens, kernproeven, fall-out, Aborigines, Groot Brittannië, patriottisme, harde bureaucratie, |