Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
