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MAKING THE BRITISH H BOMB IN AUSTRALIA:
FROM THE MONTE BELLOS
TO THE 1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS

A REVISIONIST HISTORY

Sue Rabbitt Roff

JUST PUBLISHED

‘Truth Is the Daughter of Time, Not of Authority’:1 How Oral Histories

Revise the Official Narrative of British Atomic and Thermonuclear

Testing in Australia 

  SUE RABBITT ROFF

2023-Issue45-Roff.pdf (oralhistoryaustralia.org.au)

From

https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/journal/issue-no-45-2023/
Sue Rabbitt Roff has spent decades researching the cover up of British atomic testing in Australia, Christmas Island and the Monte Bello Islands. In her article, Roff demonstrates the crucial role oral histories play in countering official narratives that obfuscate or deny Australian tests. For those who have seen the film Oppenheimer, and who may have wondered about connections between the Manhattan Project and Australian scientists, or about the extent to which Australian prime minister Robert Menzies was informed regarding the intentions of the British, Roff’s dense and highly informative article will provide many answers. Roff includes a call to action, making the point that many primary sources are available to the public but have yet to be comprehensively studied.

See also  FORTHCOMING

https://www.history.ac.uk/seminar/official-history-past-present-and-future for seminar for a series of FREE online seminars including

Whence cometh Official Histories? The case of the development of the British fission and fusion nuclear bombs in Australia (Sue Roff) 

Margaret Gowing’s Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939-1945 (Matthew Jones)

on February 28, 2024

https://www.history.ac.uk/seminar/official-history-past-present-and-future

This online seminar series is sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Historians, in partnership with History & Policyat the Institute of Historical Research. It seeks to explore the past, present and future of official history, examining its purpose and value, and asking whether there is a future for such an enterprise in the age of the 20-year rule and Freedom of Information. It will do so from the perspective of scholars who have contributed to official and authorised histories, those who have studied the genre, and users of these works with particular reference to the views of policymakers.


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