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    Britain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath is a 2006 book by Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith. It is the second edition of an official...
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    bomb in the Monte Bello Islands in Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia were carried out over the...
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    (2010) The Bells of Nagasaki (1949) Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958) Britain, Australia and the Bomb (2006)...
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    The British hydrogen bomb programme was the ultimately successful British effort to develop hydrogen bombs between 1952 and 1958. During the early part...
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    Beyond belief: the British bomb tests: Australia's veterans speak out by Roger Cross and veteran and whistleblower, Avon Hudson. Australia portal Downwinders...
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    Operation Hurricane (category British nuclear testing in Australia)
    Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, Britain became the third nuclear power, after the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Second...
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    Operation Grapple (category 1957 in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands)
    four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas...
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    OCLC 753874620. Arnold, Lorna; Smith, Mark (2006). Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan...
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    William Penney, Baron Penney (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    generated by the blast wave of an atomic bomb. Upon returning home, Penney directed the British nuclear weapons directorate, codenamed Tube Alloys and directed...
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  • through Mercury Records. "Cherry Bomb" was ranked 52nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100...
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    Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia". Historical Records of Australian Science. 14 (2): 209–210. ISSN 0727-3061. Archived from the original...
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    The "Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74", commonly known as the S.T. grenade or simply sticky bomb, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during...
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    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129...
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  • of Australia. Reed 2011, p. 52. Reed 2009, p. 730. Reed 2009, p. 732. Reed 2011, p. 56. Arnold, Lorna; Smith, Mark (2006). Britain, Australia and the Bomb:...
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    acres) administered by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation. The islands were the site of three British atmospheric nuclear...
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  • Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up is a book by Alan Parkinson about the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South...
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    30% to 40% of the bomb's total weight. The British term for a bomb of this type is "medium case" or "medium capacity" (MC). The GP bomb is a common weapon...
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    first British atomic bomb, which had taken place at the Montebello Islands a year previously. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the acceptable...
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    Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith. (2006). Britain, Australia and the Bomb, Palgrave Press. Keever, Beverly Deepe (February 25, 2004). "Shot in the Dark". Honolulu...
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    Operation Mosaic (category British nuclear testing in Australia)
    hydrogen bomb, which the British Government had agreed would not be tested in Australia, the tests were connected with the British hydrogen bomb programme...
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    High Explosive Research (category Nuclear history of the United Kingdom)
    High Explosive Research (HER) was the British project to develop atomic bombs independently after the Second World War. This decision was taken by a cabinet...
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    Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll (category Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands)
    Arnold and Mark Smith. (2006). Britain, Australia and the Bomb, Palgrave Press, p. 77. Rhodes, Richard (1995). Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New...
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    A series of bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attacks killed 202 people (including...
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    II. Although Australia has never produced chemical weapons, it did stockpile chemical weapons sourced from the United States and Britain. Chemical weapons...
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    nuclear medicine, and does not produce electricity. Australia hosts 33% of the world's proven uranium deposits, and is currently the world’s third largest...
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    bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's...
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    Rongelap Atoll (category Atolls of the Marshall Islands)
    proximity to US hydrogen bomb tests in 1954, and was particularly devastated by fallout from the Castle Bravo test. The population asked the US to move them (several...
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    Helen Caldicott (category Use Australian English from February 2012)
    August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. She founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power...
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    another bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The train bombings occurred on the Circle Line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road, and on the Piccadilly...
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    OCLC 611555258. Arnold, Lorna; Smith, Mark (2006). Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan...
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