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A political inconvenience

Then there was a great flash that reached the far horizon. Even Dr Penney, who had witnessed the first historic cataclysm in the desert at Almagordo and later seen a bomb burst over Japan, described the scene as ‘terrifying’ as he turned around to find the frigate Plym had vanished and to see a great [...]

Posted 01 December 1985 † tim § articles and book chapters § atomic age ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Australian scientists at the British atomic tests

The radioactive dust had barely settled on the devastated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when, in November 1945, Winston Churchill proclaimed: ‘This I take is already agreed, we should make atomic bombs.’ It was, and they did – seven years later Britain exploded its first atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands off the coast [...]

Posted 15 November 1985 † tim § articles and book chapters § atomic age ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,