Sue Rabbitt Roff rewrites old narratives with archival evidence in cold case reviews.
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Nuclear Options
How an Australian ‘safety adviser’ detonated the world’s first atomic bomb – johnmenadue.com, July 2020Mark Oliphant’s no-show at the British atomic and nuclear tests in Australia – the Fuchs factor – johnmenadue.com, June 2020Why are files on British nuclear weapons development in Australia being removed from public access at the UK National Archives? – johnmenadue.com, January 2020How Menzies Begged Macmillan For The Bomb – Meanjin blog, December 2019Making the Jitterbug Work – Marcus Oliphant and the Manhattan Project – Atomic Heritage Foundation, May 30, 2019Cold War exhibition tries to airbrush Britain’s dark history of nuclear testing – The Conversation, May 2019Peace activist or atomic spy? The curious case of a Cold War nuclear scientist – CNN, April 2019Was Sir Mark Oliphant Australia’s – and Britain’s – J. Robert Oppenheimer? Meanjin blog, January 2019Australia’s Nuclear Olympics – Melbourne 1956 Sir Mark Oliphant – Australia’s – and Britain’s – J. Robert Oppenheimer? Under-ascertainment of multiple myeloma among participants in UK atmospheric atomic and nuclear weapons tests – BMJ Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Volume 60, Issue 12, 2003Sue’s nuclear bibliography – PubMed articlesSue’s nuclear bibliography – books and chapters
Roff S. “Knocked over by a pile of bombs. Hasn’t felt well since.” Nuclear test veterans and the UK Ministry of Defence Pensions System” in Suzannah Linton (ed) Festschrift for Roger Clark. Brill/Niijhoff 2015
Roff, Sue Rabbitt. “Long-term Health Effects in UK Test Veterans” in Holdstock D and Barnaby F (eds) The British Nuclear Weapons Programme 1952-2002. Frank Cass London, Portland OR 2003
Roff, Sue Rabbitt. Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London ; New York : Cassell, 1995https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21098359?q&versionId=25128861 http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/8858704
Sue Rabbitt Roff. Overreaching in paradise: United States policy in Palau since 1945. Juneau, Alaska USA. Denali Press 1991
Culture Shocks
Blue Poles – Asset or Liability? April 2020Sir Kenneth Clark’s Australian Epiphany , January 2020James Mollison: the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia – The Conversation, January 2020Who Sold Blue Poles to Australia? – Meanjin blog, January 2020Indecent Advertisements: The Ern Malley Hoax – Meanjin blog, June 2019Peevish Paddy and Sir Neddy: Patrick White’s Nobel Prize – Meanjin blog, December 2018What Will the Judge’s Copy Tell Us About the Second Lady Chatterley Trial? – Meanjin blog, October 2018Ern and Ned, Sun and Sid : The Anglo-Australian School of Faux Naive Fusionism – Meanjin, Spring (Australia) September 2018Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting? – The Conversation, September 2018The Sidney Nolan mystery: did British government knowingly knight a wartime deserter? – The Conversation, February 2018How huge gamble by Lady Chatterley lawyers changed obscenity law forever – The Conversation, November 2017Sodomy’s low profile in Lady Chatterley trial – The Guardian, November 2017How huge gamble by ‘Lady Chatterley’ lawyers changed obscenity law forever – Independent, November 2017Kangaroo pictures found at RCS may be Australia’s earliest oil paintings – The Guardian, March 2017
Memory Lanes
