L. Arnold & M. Smith 
Britain, Australia and the Bomb 
The Nuclear Tests and their Aftermath

Britain, Australia and the Bomb tells the story of the unique partnership between the two countries to develop nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 1950s. This new edition includes fresh evidence about the weapons under development, the effects of the tests on participants, and the recent clean-up of the testing range.

Table of Content

Preface to Second Edition Atomic Policies and Policymakers Why Australia? Hurricane 1952 Totem 1953 A Pregnant Pause 1953-6 Maralinga: A Permanent Proving Ground Mosaic 1956 Buffalo 1956 ‘There Must Be Further Trials to Come’: Weapons Planning 1956-7 Antler and After Kittens, Rats and Vixens The Maralinga Range after 1963 Health & Safety and the NRPB Studies In Retrospect

About the author

LORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History. She is author of
Britain and the H-Bomb (2001) and
Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident.

MARK SMITH works in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, where he specializes in British nuclear history and ballistic missile proliferation. Prior to arriving at Swansea, he was a Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton, UK.