Australia's Bid For The Atomic Bomb

This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence policy was premised on Joint nuclear weapons development with the United Kingdom; and that while this endeavour failed, it shaped domestic and foreign policy until the end of the 1950s.

Nuclear weapons have traditionally been seen as American and British concerns, and various official histories have held that the development of rockets and atomic...