TY - BOOK ID - 16254742 TI - Grappling with the bomb AU - Maclellan, Nic AU - ANU Press PY - 2017 SN - 1760461385 1760461377 9781760461386 9781760461379 PB - Acton, A.C.T. ANU Press DB - UniCat KW - Operation Grapple, Kiribati, 1956-1958. KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Hydrogen bomb KW - Testing. KW - H-bomb KW - Christmas Island Nuclear Tests, Kiribati, 1956-1958 KW - Grapple, Operation, Kiribati, 1956-1958 KW - Kiritimati Nuclear Tests, Kiribati, 1956-1958 KW - Malden Island Nuclear Tests, Kiribati, 1956-1958 KW - Operation Grapple, 1956-1958 KW - Testing KW - Great Britain KW - Military policy. KW - nuclear weapons KW - pacific KW - kiribati KW - hydrogen bomb KW - Christmas Island KW - Fiji KW - Kiritimati KW - Operation Grapple KW - Thermonuclear weapon UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16254742 AB - Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britains 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957 58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britains nuclear folly. ER -