Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820786X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge. Here, for the first time, through interviews and eye-witness accounts from men who watched the mushroom clouds drift over Australia and the Pacific Ocean, the tests are vividly recreated. Using official documents recently made public, evidence gathered by the Australian government's Royal Commission of Inquiry into the tests, and her own experience as an investigative journalist, Joan Smith argues forcefully that the bomb tests are far from being a historical anecdote. They remain with us in the shape of the victims - servicemen, civilians and aborigines who witnessed them - and through Britain's continuing programme of nuclear weapons tests in the United States. In this disturbing and horrific book, first published in 1985, Joan Smith raises crucial questions about the British government's responsibility to the people who took part in the tests - and shows how their effects may yet have a devastating impact on Britain's nuclear industry.
Clouds of Deceit
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820786X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge. Here, for the first time, through interviews and eye-witness accounts from men who watched the mushroom clouds drift over Australia and the Pacific Ocean, the tests are vividly recreated. Using official documents recently made public, evidence gathered by the Australian government's Royal Commission of Inquiry into the tests, and her own experience as an investigative journalist, Joan Smith argues forcefully that the bomb tests are far from being a historical anecdote. They remain with us in the shape of the victims - servicemen, civilians and aborigines who witnessed them - and through Britain's continuing programme of nuclear weapons tests in the United States. In this disturbing and horrific book, first published in 1985, Joan Smith raises crucial questions about the British government's responsibility to the people who took part in the tests - and shows how their effects may yet have a devastating impact on Britain's nuclear industry.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820786X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge. Here, for the first time, through interviews and eye-witness accounts from men who watched the mushroom clouds drift over Australia and the Pacific Ocean, the tests are vividly recreated. Using official documents recently made public, evidence gathered by the Australian government's Royal Commission of Inquiry into the tests, and her own experience as an investigative journalist, Joan Smith argues forcefully that the bomb tests are far from being a historical anecdote. They remain with us in the shape of the victims - servicemen, civilians and aborigines who witnessed them - and through Britain's continuing programme of nuclear weapons tests in the United States. In this disturbing and horrific book, first published in 1985, Joan Smith raises crucial questions about the British government's responsibility to the people who took part in the tests - and shows how their effects may yet have a devastating impact on Britain's nuclear industry.
The Friend
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Anatomy of Deceit
Author: Marcy Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists run in the same social circles as the powerful people they cover? When the President and his administration trade press access for loyalty? You get a complicit, uncritical press greasing the skids to a brutal war, conspiring to out a CIA agent, and muddying the waters of a grand jury investigation. In the fearful aftermath of 9/11, much of America’s pride -- its free press -- became an unquestioning propaganda arm. Marcy Wheeler’s Anatomy of Deceit documents how the media promoted the Bush administration’s justification for war -- that Iraq was on the verge of acquiring weapons of mass destruction -- even though much of it was debunked. And it provides a play-by-play account of how Vice President Dick Cheney’s office first used the media to target a critic, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and then to avoid criminal charges in the CIA leak case. While the media was beating the drums of war and cozying up to the administration, citizen journalists were digging for the truth. Wheeler's compelling account tells the story, as it needs to be told -- from outside the Beltway's cocktail circuit.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists run in the same social circles as the powerful people they cover? When the President and his administration trade press access for loyalty? You get a complicit, uncritical press greasing the skids to a brutal war, conspiring to out a CIA agent, and muddying the waters of a grand jury investigation. In the fearful aftermath of 9/11, much of America’s pride -- its free press -- became an unquestioning propaganda arm. Marcy Wheeler’s Anatomy of Deceit documents how the media promoted the Bush administration’s justification for war -- that Iraq was on the verge of acquiring weapons of mass destruction -- even though much of it was debunked. And it provides a play-by-play account of how Vice President Dick Cheney’s office first used the media to target a critic, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and then to avoid criminal charges in the CIA leak case. While the media was beating the drums of war and cozying up to the administration, citizen journalists were digging for the truth. Wheeler's compelling account tells the story, as it needs to be told -- from outside the Beltway's cocktail circuit.
Chasing Clouds
Author: Annabelle Knight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781398408319
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elodie Taylor has a lot to be thankful for. She has great friends, a hardworking boyfriend and a job she enjoys but she's always wondered whether that's enough. She has a lifelong thirst for adventure that, no matter how hard she tries, just won't go away. With the help of her two best friends, and a chance encounter with a handsome stranger, Elodie embarks on a journey that she hopes will change her life for the better, and satiate her longing for escape. But all is not smooth sailing in Elodie's shiny new world and a betrayal means that she soon finds herself tangled in a dark web of deceit and desire that sees her relationships pushed to breaking point. Elodie is torn and must make some difficult decisions - decisions that could have high costs, and not only for her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781398408319
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elodie Taylor has a lot to be thankful for. She has great friends, a hardworking boyfriend and a job she enjoys but she's always wondered whether that's enough. She has a lifelong thirst for adventure that, no matter how hard she tries, just won't go away. With the help of her two best friends, and a chance encounter with a handsome stranger, Elodie embarks on a journey that she hopes will change her life for the better, and satiate her longing for escape. But all is not smooth sailing in Elodie's shiny new world and a betrayal means that she soon finds herself tangled in a dark web of deceit and desire that sees her relationships pushed to breaking point. Elodie is torn and must make some difficult decisions - decisions that could have high costs, and not only for her.
Out of the Clouds of Deceit
Author: David Canning
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781780887777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1948 while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with Dennis, who lost his brother in the war and cannot come to terms with his grief. Through contact with older serving officers Aiden and Dennis come to understand the sense of betrayal nursed by bomber crews who flew in the allied bombing campaign of the Second World War.
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781780887777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1948 while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with Dennis, who lost his brother in the war and cannot come to terms with his grief. Through contact with older serving officers Aiden and Dennis come to understand the sense of betrayal nursed by bomber crews who flew in the allied bombing campaign of the Second World War.
The Contributor
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Great West
Author: Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Works of Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne
Author: Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Clouds of Deceit
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571136285
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Notes the meeting of Aborigines by British servicemen in prohibited areas of Maralinga; evidence of Aboriginal illhealth as a result of atom tests.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571136285
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Notes the meeting of Aborigines by British servicemen in prohibited areas of Maralinga; evidence of Aboriginal illhealth as a result of atom tests.
The Pennsylvania School Journal
Author: Thomas Henry Burrowes
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description