MAKING THE BRITISH H BOMB IN AUSTRALIA:
FROM THE MONTE BELLOS
TO THE 1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS
A REVISIONIST HISTORY
Sue Rabbitt Roff
Nuclear Options
- Oral testimonies fact-check the official narrative of the British nuclear tests in Australia – July 2023; published in Agora 58:2 (2023), 34-37
- ORAL HISTORY AS WITNESS AND EVIDENCE – (Slides) The Oral Transcripts Submitted to the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in 1984-5 – Presented to Oral History Association Conference, Launceston, Australia October 14, 2022
- MAKING THE BRITISH H BOMB IN AUSTRALIA – (Video) Presented at the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), 12 October, 2022
- WHY DON’T WE TRUST GOVERNMENT STUDIES OF MULTIGENERATIONAL LEGACIES OF NUCLEAR TESTS IN THE PACIFIC? – Presented at a webinar under the auspices of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma, 8th November, 2021
- PROTECTING THE PRIMACY OF THE PRIMARY DOCUMENT IN NUCLEAR HISTORY – THE ROLE OF ARCHIVAL RESEARCH – Presented at Nuclear History and the Archive webinar, University of South Wales, UK, 7th Sept, 2021
- Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? Counting down to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics – johnmenadue.com, July 2021
- Archival Documents Reveal British H Bomb Was Developed In Australia Despite Denials – johnmenadue.com, June 2021
- Review Essay: David Kemp. A Liberal State. How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 1926-1966 – johnmenadue.com, May 2021
- Wiped from history books: Menzies’ plan for the Jindivik pilotless bomber to finance Woomera – johnmenadue.com, January 2021
- It’s surely time to come clean on Australia’s 1950s’ nuclear plans – johnmenadue.com, January 2021
- The Ticking Time Bombs of Nuclear Australia – johnmenadue.com, December 2020
- How an Australian ‘safety adviser’ detonated the world’s first atomic bomb – johnmenadue.com, July 2020
- Mark Oliphant’s no-show at the British atomic and nuclear tests in Australia – the Fuchs factor – johnmenadue.com, June 2020
- Why are files on British nuclear weapons development in Australia being removed from public access at the UK National Archives? – johnmenadue.com, January 2020
- How Menzies Begged Macmillan For The Bomb – Meanjin blog, December 2019
- Making the Jitterbug Work – Marcus Oliphant and the Manhattan Project – Atomic Heritage Foundation, May 30 2019
- Cold War exhibition tries to airbrush Britain’s dark history of nuclear testing – The Conversation, May 2019
- Peace activist or atomic spy? The curious case of a Cold War nuclear scientist – CNN, April 2019
- Was Sir Mark Oliphant Australia’s – and Britain’s – J. Robert Oppenheimer? Meanjin blog, January 2019
- Australia’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, 2003
- Sue’s nuclear bibliography – PubMed articles
- Sue’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, 1995
https://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
- The Secrets of Henry Handel Richardson:Is Ultima Thule a literary or a literal case study? – August 2023
- Shirley Hazzard’s life writing in light of her authorized biography – July 2023
- False memories: How Errol Flynn gaslit his ghostwriter – June 2023
- On the question of whether Iris Murdoch was a Soviet spy – Overland, March 2022
- The tale tellers: why Muriel Spark fell out with Shirley Hazzard – Overland, November 2021
- Ned Kelly – ‘The Man with the Iron Head’ – johnmenadue.com, May 2021
- The Colour of the Road – Embark, April 2021
- Rewriting the creation myth of Blue Poles as it approaches 70 – johnmenadue.com, March 2021
- Sidney Nolan’s St Kilda paintings: the ‘innocence’ of a man in his 20s with a wife and two mistresses – johnmenadue.com, February 2021
- The Curious Case of the Memetic Marsupial, January 2021
- Whose Kangaroo Was It Anyway? – johnmenadue.com, December 2020
- The war reparations of Sidney Nolan and Benjamin Britten – reckless innocence? – johnmenadue.com, November 2020
- Lady Chatterley and Alexander Portnoy: Narrowing the Limits of Censorship in Australia – johnmenadue.com, November 2020
- Re-Reading The Lady Chatterley Trials In New York And London After 60 Years, adelaidemagazine.org, October 2020
- The Conundrum of the London Kangaroos – johnmenadue.com, September 2020
- ‘What would you have me do? Go to the wars?’ Sidney Nolan’s soldier – overland.org.au, September 2020
- D.H.Lawrence’s Australian Climacteric – johnmenadue.com, August 2020
- Fast Tracking a National Care Service – johnmenadue.com, August 2020
- GRETA – adelaidemagazine.org, May 2020
- Blue Poles – Asset or Liability? April 2020
- Sir Kenneth Clark’s Australian Epiphany, January 2020
- James Mollison: the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia – The Conversation, January 2020
- Who Sold Blue Poles to Australia? – Meanjin blog, January 2020
- Indecent Advertisements: The Ern Malley Hoax – Meanjin blog, June 2019
- Peevish Paddy and Sir Neddy: Patrick White’s Nobel Prize – Meanjin blog, December 2018
- What Will the Judge’s Copy Tell Us About the Second Lady Chatterley Trial? – Meanjin blog, October 2018
- Ern and Ned, Sun and Sid: The Anglo-Australian School of Faux Naive Fusionism – Meanjin, Spring (Australia) September 2018
- Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting? – The Conversation, September 2018
- The Sidney Nolan mystery: did British government knowingly knight a wartime deserter? – The Conversation, February 2018
- How huge gamble by Lady Chatterley lawyers changed obscenity law forever – The Conversation, November 2017
- Sodomy’s low profile in Lady Chatterley trial – The Guardian, November 2017
- How huge gamble by ‘Lady Chatterley’ lawyers changed obscenity law forever – Independent, November 2017
- Kangaroo pictures found at RCS may be Australia’s earliest oil paintings – The Guardian, March 2017
Memory Lanes
