Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- British nuclear tests in Australia - a review of operational safety measures and of possible after-effects
- Imprint
- Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1983, 76 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0664024828
- Description
AIRAC, no. 9 - a report commissioned around 1980 by Prime Minister Fraser. 'It gave the British nuclear tests and the situation at Maralinga a glowing report . . . The governement-appointed council found there was no radioactivity problem, minimal impact of the bomb tests, no possibility of a "black mist", and no illnesses or early deaths caused to Aboriginals or anyone else.' [Frank Walker "Maralinga" page 204] Few believed this report and it was soon discredited by the Kerr Report c.1984.
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- Birch, Louis Charles (Charles) (1918 - 2009)
Birch was a member of AIRAC in 1983
- Spicer, Brian Milton (1928 - 2004)
Spicer was a member of AIRAC 1937-1987