A tragic anniversary, while the effects of nuclear bomb testing still linger
Today, 80 years have passed since Nagasaki left an atomic bomb. The arms race he started was subjected to thousands of radiation from the tests. Sue Rabbitt Roff About History and Calls for Compensation.
A recent video of the British Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister, Defense Minister and Army Minister, in the 1950s and 1960s, supported the calls for financial compensation to 40,000 Australia, New Zealand and British participants in the UK’s atomic and nuclear test series.
The video was watched more than 5.4 million and counted. These statements made just before the election of labor force for the government, Monte Bellos, Emu Field and Maralinga, as well as the Christmas Island by the British government of the day by the British government of the day -related issues related to the failures of the care tasks.
Prime Minister Starmer may not be able to eliminate the pressure longer.
The proof of the failure of the care mission begins immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aua0o2npdda
A very long fight
Thirty years ago, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, I published a book criticizing the work of health hazards of atomic bombings. Almost the word of the meetings was based on the record. Atomic bomb injured commission It was founded a few months after the explosions.
An interview, James V Neel, A senior geneticist ABCCIn some of my questions, the bag was quickly lip and I could see the steam rise. He turned to me as I walked to the steps of the building and said, “If you publish the line you have suffered with me, I will sue you.”
I did Write the bookBut he never sued.
I also interviewed Sir Mark Oliphant At the suburban house in Canberra. There was OLİPHANT strong lobby For the development of the first atomic bomb in London and the United States, Memorandum Written by two refugee physicists – Frisch and Peierls – he brought to the Department of Physics at the University of Birmingham.
He spent a few years in the United States in the Manhattan project, which built bombs detonated on Hiroshima in August 1945 and then on Nagasaki.
During our interview, Oliphant was very deaf and launched a monologue that did not entertain any inquiry, like a boxer stating the cross -inquiry attempts ”.
Despite Realization in the 1950s There is no dose level that will not be a radiojenic injury under it, Oliphant’s opening promise
Radiation cannot be so bad for you. Cosmic radiation, soil radon .. must be a threshold.
“I’m not a biologist, I started as Medico. I wasn’t interested in people, but with things. People squeezed me hard. Most of the medicine is really incredible.”
Maralinga test
Oliphant in 1992,
“They can really decontamine by leaving Maralinga alone. Plutonium alpha particles contamination… I think it was largely exaggerated. Aborigines are using it to the end. At the same time, it was very disgusting to leave it and spread it in the first place.
However, he acknowledged that there were risks of contamination.
“Maralinga had British and Australian biomedical committees. There were many Shenanigans in connection with him. A biologist named Hedley Marston, from a biological point of view, found a terrible contamination of large areas of grazing population. Bomb people, food people, especially food, were very brutal about food”.
They had a lot of pigs. People under control were very ratified about dose forecasts. People seemed to be a great faith. People I respect. I also accepted. “
Bombing or bombing
Danish theoretical physicist Niels bohr And others – including Oliphant, including President Roosevelt tried to persuade him not to use the bomb to the Japanese population. “This must be a weapon for peace by making an explosion to indicate the Japanese, for example,” he thought Roosevelt thought that this weapon should never be used in civil cities.
Roosevelt died and Truman made a final decision to leave these bombs.
Did he miss an opportunity?
Later, nuclear proliferation became a major problem in the early days of the Cold War. Mark Oliphant also worked with Robert Oppenheimer to convince the Foreign Minister of Australia. HV evattSupporting a Soviet nuclear examination proposal in the United Nations as the representative of the Australian representative and the first president of the general assembly.
Olur I went to the United Nations Atomic Energy Authority meeting in 1946 as a technical consultant. DR EVATT. I couldn’t stand it; He was an unbearable arrogance man. Due to the alphabetical order, he took part in the first meeting of the Security Council and the UN Atomic Energy Commission. “
“The proceedings began and there was no simultaneous translation in those days, and when the trial was opened, the American delegation leader put forward the American policy, and it was clear that America should have nuclear weapons and be the only country that could be trusted. All other countries should be controlled.”
Russian Foreign Minister, Andrei GromykoThere was a very simple thesis:
- All existing nuclear weapons should be removed. He realized that enriched plutonium could be used for reactors;
- All reactors should be subjected to nuclear examination.
When he was finished, Oppenheimer, sitting just behind Oliphant, turned and said to him, “Look here, you and your boss have to have a serious discussion because we recommend the Russians serious nuclear examination here.” Oliphant said, “I went to Doctor Evatt and said Robert was down to see me, and we both felt very strong.” Doctor evatt,
Nonsense, nonsense. We may want to use them against them.
Australian victims
Oliphant was right for a few things. Contrary to the narrative in which Menzies is allowed to develop the components of atomic and later thermonuclear weapons in Australia, the Prime Minister lobby Tactical weapons for Australia from the beginning.
In the UK national archives, his nuclear talent in Australia (Defe/2148) showed that Menzies was more concerned about the possibility of Australia’s exposure to monitoring because he was very closely complied with the British demands.
He was in danger of being called a nuclear situation.
Oliphant was right that it was naughty for the British to leave him in the 1950s [radioactive contamination] And to think that it is very bad to spread this way in the first place.
For the proof of this statement and a quarter of the Australian soldiers, health consequences, scientists, civilians, and the domestic and settler population of Australia are currently released by the British government. But yet, without any financing to download or analyze half a million documents.
Meanwhile, the current minister of the Armed Forces of England, Luke Pollard, BBC Radio Interview During the Armed Forces Week on June 25, 2025:
‘We know that the consequences of most people participating in the tests are not only by individuals but by family members. Therefore, we want to find out how much we can declare and share and to reach the heart of trying to get justice for these individuals. “
More than one third of the Royal Commission’s British Nuclear (SİC) tests to prevent the Australian National Archives in Australia to be examined yet. It would be a good place to start.
I hope it won’t last for seventy -five years.
Finally compensation for the victims of the Australian atomic bomb test?
Sue Rabbitt studied and taught at the Universities of Roff, Melbourne and Monash. His latest articles on the cultural aspects of the settler Colonial Australia were published in Meanjin, Overland, Speech, Independent and Pearls and irritations. He is currently writing a revisionist history of British atomic tests and nuclear studies in Australia.
