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Elizabeth Tynan

Elizabeth Tynan is associate professor in the Graduate Research School at James Cook University Townsville. A former science journalist, her book Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story won the Prime Minister’s History Award and the CHASS Australia Book Prize in 2017.

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Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

9781742236957

The Secret of Emu Field

Elizabeth Tynan

Liz Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder, reveals the little-known story of Emu Field, the first British atomic test site in South Australia, pre-dating Maralinga by three years.