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Bas Publishing, Seaford, 2009, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 144 pages, 7.75" x 9.25".
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Len Beadell's Legacy: Australia's Atomic Bomb and Rocket Roads Hardcover - 2009
by Ian A. Bayly
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- Title Len Beadell's Legacy: Australia's Atomic Bomb and Rocket Roads
- Author Ian A. Bayly
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bas Publishing, Seaford, VIC, Australia
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781921496028 / 1921496029
- Library of Congress subjects Surveyors - Australia, Beadell, Len
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011431735
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Seaford, Victoria : Bas Publishing, 2010. Reprint. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/Good. Slightly smaller than A4 landscape. Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges all neat and clean In June 1952, Len Beadell was called to a secret meeting in Salisbury, South Australia, and informed of the decision to explode an atomic bomb in Australia. He was set the task of finding an appropriate site. After exploring country to the west of Coober Pedy, he found an unnamed claypan (later called Emu) which the military approved as being suitable. It was close to the Emu Claypan that atomic bombs (Totem 1 and 2) were exploded on 15 and 27 October 1953. Even before the first of these two bombs was exploded, Beadell was asked to find a second site closer to the Trans Australian Railway. This second site was ominously called Maralinga (Aboriginal for thunder), and it was…
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Seaford, Vic: Bas Publishing. 2010. Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 24cm x17.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a near fine dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's initials to top corner of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Maps to both pastedowns. 144 pages. Describes the adventures and difficulties encounters by Beadell and his group in surveying and construction the Emu and Maralinga atomic bomb sites and access roads and then with the Gunbarrel Road Construction party. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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