Hiroshima and Here - Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture

This study provides a cultural history of Nuclear Age Australia. The author examines the country’s role as a weapons testing site, its ambition to join the postwar nuclear club of nations, the heated controversies surrounding uranium mining and nuclear power, and the rich complexity of Australian cultural response to the fact and possibility of atomic destruction.

List of contents

Introduction: Exile on Uranium Street

Part I: The Aftermath

Chapter 1: Hiroshima around the Corner: Payback and Portent

Chapter 2: Going to Ground Zero: Australians in Occupied Japan

Part II: Australia's Place in the Nuclear Empire

Chapter 3: Our Atomic Home: the 1950s

Chapter 4: The Nuclear Blues: Since the 1960s

Part III: Commemoration and Prophecy

Chapter 5: Hiroshima Revisited: Remembering and Representing "the Bomb"

Chapter 6: Doom Town: Imagining the Nuclear Destruction of Australian Cities

Conclusion: Apocalypse, and Other Ends

About the author

Robin Gerster is professor in the School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Gerster, Gerster Robin, Monash University
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781498587594
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8759-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasia, Australasian and Pacific history, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa