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Hiroshima and Here

Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture
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This study provides a cultural history of Australia and nuclear power. The author examines the country's role as a nuclear test site, the aspirations of the nation toward the postwar nuclear club, its deference to the demands of Britain and the United States, and the complex discourses of Australian society surrounding nuclear power.
Introduction: Exile on Uranium Street Part I: The Aftermath Chapter 1: Hiroshima around the Corner: Payback and Portent Chapter 2: Going to Ground Zero: Australians in Occupied Japan Part II: Australia's Place in the Nuclear Empire Chapter 3: Our Atomic Home: the 1950s Chapter 4: The Nuclear Blues: Since the 1960s Part III: Commemoration and Prophecy Chapter 5: Hiroshima Revisited: Remembering and Representing "the Bomb" Chapter 6: Doom Town: Imagining the Nuclear Destruction of Australian Cities Conclusion: Apocalypse, and Other Ends
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