Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath - Hardcover

by L. Arnold (Author), M. Smith (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.