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Temporarily Out of Print Fallout Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia PB 224 PP 210 x 135 B&W PHOTOS 1862545235 $24.95 Biography / True Stories EAN 9781862545236 Wakefield Press In the 1950s the Australian government agreed to let the British government test atomic bombs in South Australia’s northern deserts. The Australian public was assured there was no risk from radioactive fallout, but one man wasn’t satisfied. Hedley Marston was a CSIRO biochemist whose experiments proved the government’s Safety Committee were telling lies. Fallout is the story of a government desperate for prestige and one man willing to risk everything to expose the danger of radioactive fallout. Also available: Beyond Belief: The British bomb tests: Australia’s veterans speak out |