4 June 2006
Australia's Nuclear History
Rear Vision traces Australia's attempts, during the nineteen fifties and sixties, to obtain nuclear technology and weapons from Britain and the United States.
Guests
Wayne Reynolds
Department of History,
University of Newcastle
Australia
Alan Parkinson
Mechanical and nuclear engineer who worked on the Jervis Bay project
Tony Wood
Expert in nuclear reactors who was with the AAEC for over 40 years
Jim Walsh
Security Studies Program,
Department of Political Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications
Title: Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb
Author: Wayne Reynolds
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Title: Surprise Down Under: The Secret History of Australia's Nuclear Ambitions
Author: Jim Walsh
Publisher: The Nonproliferation Review 5 (Fall 1997), pp 1-20
Presenter
Annabelle Quince
Producer
Keri Phillips
