Fact or Fission the truth about Australia’s nuclear ambitions | 956.55 KB
Title: Fact or Fission the truth about Australia’s nuclear ambitions
Author: Richard Broinowski
Category: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Nuclear Energy, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Language: English | 366 Pages | ISBN: 9781922586636
Description:
An updated and authoritative account of Australia’s involvement with nuclear power, including the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact.
Based on previously classified files and interviews with some of Australia’s prominent politicians and diplomats, the first edition of Fact or Fission? revealed that the nation’s nuclear policies had a chequered history. We sold, and continue to sell, uranium abroad, but rejected plans to build nuclear reactors in Australia. We switched from wanting our own nuclear weapons during the Cold War to giving strong support for a sane international non-proliferation regime.
But now the narrative needs updating. Since the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, an increasingly uncritical acceptance in Canberra of Washington’s war-fighting policies – nuclear and conventional – has encouraged the very things that Australia once so vigorously and moralistically opposed.
The latest step was taken at the end of…
An updated and authoritative account of Australia’s involvement with nuclear power, including the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact.
Based on previously classified files and interviews with some of Australia’s prominent politicians and diplomats, the first edition of Fact or Fission? revealed that the nation’s nuclear policies had a chequered history. We sold, and continue to sell, uranium abroad, but rejected plans to build nuclear reactors in Australia. We switched from wanting our own nuclear weapons during the Cold War to giving strong support for a sane international non-proliferation regime.
But now the narrative needs updating. Since the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, an increasingly uncritical acceptance in Canberra of Washington’s war-fighting policies – nuclear and conventional – has encouraged the very things that Australia once so vigorously and moralistically opposed.
The latest step was taken at the end of…
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