Walker, Frank 306
Wallatinna 174, 197–198, 271
Walsh, Peter 17, 19–20, 31–32, 269–270
Warburton Mission 179, 190
Warrego, HMAS 64, 68, 86
Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) 170, 184, 190
Webb, Jeremy 286, 290
Wewak site 127, 228, 232, 238
Wheeler, John 36
whistleblowing see Moroney, John; New Scientist story; Snowden, Edward; Toohey, Brian; WikiLeaks
White, B 192
Whitlam, Gough 248, 251
Wigner, Eugene 35, 39
WikiLeaks 307–308
Williams, Edward 207
Williams, Geoff
appraisal of black mist 198
ARL contamination survey and 13–18, 22–24
as source for Anderson story 32, 276–277, 284–285
Windscale 53–54, 71
Woodcock, ER 172
Woollett, Stuart 302
Woomera missile testing site 12, 177, 203–204, 207
WRE (Weapons Research Establishment) 170, 184, 190
X200: 76
X300: 1, 12, 93, 187
Yalata mission 174, 176, 182, 193, 196
yield (of nuclear explosion) 318g
Zeebrugge, HMS 71
About the Author
ELIZABETH TYNAN is an academic at the James Cook University Graduate Research School in Queensland. A former journalist, she has a background in print and electronic media; previously she was a reporter and subeditor at the ABC and a correspondent for New Scientist magazine. She has also worked as a writer and editor at CSIRO, the Australian National University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Born in South Australia, she has long been fascinated by Maralinga and in 2011 completed a PhD on aspects of British nuclear testing in Australia. She is also a freelance science writer and editor, and co-author of the textbook Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice, now in its third edition, and of Communication for Business.
Copyright
Published by NewSouth Publishing
University of New South Wales Press Ltd
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
© Elizabeth Tynan 2016
First published 2016
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher.
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
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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