The glass bead game
Nuclear tourism at the Australian weapon test sites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19503238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Rabbitt Roff (0000-0001-5770-1877, University of Dundee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 290-302 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medicine Conflict & Survival (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-3699 • E-ISSN: 1743-9396 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13623699808409409 |
| PMID | 9838890 |
| OpenAlex | W1993790122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
In mid-summer 1997, just as the United States National Cancer Institute was acknowledging that the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site may ultimately cause up to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer in people who were living in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian authorities were mooting the possibility that the Maralinga test sites in South Australia should become a tourist attraction. Some Aboriginal tribal leaders welcomed this proposed use when the 20 million Pounds 'clean-up' being paid for by the United Kingdom government as some compensation for using the area for its weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s is completed. This paper surveys the attempts to clean up the site of UK nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, not least by attempting to vitrify vast tracts of desert
Mining engineering · Nuclear test · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Test site · Tourism · Tourist attraction · Archaeological Research and Protection · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Engineering · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2017 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |