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REVIEWS FALLOUT: Hedley Marston and the when the nation was gearing up for a golden British Bomb Tests in Australia post-war industrial future and encouraging by Roger Cross research into nuclear physics and medicine. Wakefield Press, Australia, 2001 This is an especially relevant book in the ISBN 1-86254-523-5 (226pp pb) context of recent testimony from Maralinga Price: A$24.95: NZ$39.95: £11: US$n/a vets who have suffered the effects of these Distributors: Aust—Wakefield Press, tel__‘Nuclear experiments and are seeking repara- +61 (0}8 8362 8800, fax +61 (0)8 8362 tions, but also in view of plans to site 7592, email info@wakefieldpress.com.au, nuclear waste dumps in the SA outback. website www.wakefieldpress.com.au; NZ—Addenda, tel (09) 834 5511; UK— MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Airlift, tel 020 8804 04001; USA—BHB Ultimate Frontier International, tel (864) 885 9444) by Val Valerian Leading Edge Research Group, USA, 2001 ISBN n/a (550pp velo-bound) Price: US$59.99 postpaid in USA; US$74.95 postpaid to Canada, Mexico; US$89.95 postpaid elsewhere Distributor: USA—Leading Edge International Research Group, PO Box 2370, Yelm, WA 98597, email val_@ trufax.org, website www.trufax.org Far. researcher Val Valerian suggested I allocate two weeks to review this latest volume in the Leading Edge Matrix series, but I'm lucky if I've got two hours to take in and describe the expanse of content in Matrix V: Quest of the Spirit — the Ultimate Frontier. He also suggested I suspend all notions of "body and gender identification beliefs" while I read it. That's easier said hen Britain approached Australia in than done, even for someone of a paradigm- 1950 to ask permission to conduct its —_pysting mentality, as some of the material on open-air testing of atomic weapons within sexuality seems to smack of "spiritual sex- Australian territory, the anglophile Prime ism", to coin a new term. By the reasoning Minister Robert Menzies had so few qualms of the author (and I'm not sure if it is he didn't even consult his cabinet colleagues Valerian), few women can consider them- before consenting. And so the first atomic selves on their "final incarnation" in third- bomb was exploded in the remote Monte density reality because they do not have the Bello Islands off the northwest coast of "unlimited creative ability” of men! Western Australia in 1952. Later that year, This book (it's velo-bound, so it's more a Menzies acquiesced to Churchill by agree- collection of papers) is meant to guide us ing to two bomb tests at Emu Field in the far towards the ultimate frontier, accessible via north of South Australia in October 1953. the Higher Self. However, the author seems The testing fury began again in 1956 with to see some overriding ancient Orion agenda two more at Monte Bello and four that year inhibiting women's ability to connect prop- and more the next year at Maralinga, SA, the erly with their Higher Self. Thinking read- subject of damages claims by military veter- ers who have ever contemplated and actu- ans and indigenous Australians. . alised their higher spiritual nature will be Many of these tests on Australian soil somewhat aghast at some of these stances. resulted in radioactive clouds that drifted While acknowledging a debt to out-of- over population centres, including outback body pioneer Robert Monroe, Matrix V towns in Queensland and capital cities claims to present material to take us to terri- including Adelaide and Melbourne (where tory beyond what Monroe even dared to resultant leukaemia clusters were observed), — gescribe. On principle, I'm wary of a book but the facts have largely been kept from the introduced as "the only book that exists on public. In Fallout, Melbourne academic Dr the planet right now that has this high level Roger Cross writes his history around of information", but I'll leave readers to CSIRO biochemist Dr Hedley Marston, who judge for themselves. No doubt fans of this discovered a radiation plume over Adelaide aries will want to continue the journey from the 11 October 1956 Maralinga test started with the first Matrix in 1988 and and tried to expose the government/scientif- bury themselves in this one for weeks on ic cover-up. Dr Cross reveals the acrimony end; they'll also welcome the reprint of the at the heart of Australian science at a time complete Handbook for the New Paradigm. FALLOUT: Hedley Marston and the British Bomb Tests in Australia by Roger Cross Wakefield Press, Australia, 2001 ISBN 1-86254-523-5 (226pp pb) Price: A$24.95; NZ$39.95; £11; US$n/a Distributors: Aust—Wakefield Press, tel +61 (0)8 8362 8800, fax +61 (0)8 8362 7592, email info@wakefieldpress.com.au, website www.wakefieldpress.com.au; NZ—Addenda, tel (09) 834 5511; UK— Airlift, tel O20 8804 04001; USA—BHB International, tel (864) 885 9444) hen Britain approached Australia in 1950 to ask permission to conduct its open-air testing of atomic weapons within Australian territory, the anglophile Prime Minister Robert Menzies had so few qualms he didn't even consult his cabinet colleagues before consenting. And so the first atomic bomb was exploded in the remote Monte Bello Islands off the northwest coast of Western Australia in 1952. Later that year, Menzies acquiesced to Churchill by agree- ing to two bomb tests at Emu Field in the far north of South Australia in October 1953. The testing fury began again in 1956 with two more at Monte Bello and four that year and more the next year at Maralinga, SA, the subject of damages claims by military veter- ans and indigenous Australians. Many of these tests on Australian soil resulted in radioactive clouds that drifted over population centres, including outback towns in Queensland and capital cities including Adelaide and Melbourne (where resultant leukaemia clusters were observed), but the facts have largely been kept from the public. In Fallout, Melbourne academic Dr Roger Cross writes his history around CSIRO biochemist Dr Hedley Marston, who discovered a radiation plume over Adelaide from the 11 October 1956 Maralinga test and tried to expose the government/scientif- ic cover-up. Dr Cross reveals the acrimony at the heart of Australian science at a time FALLOUT ae a Tian NEXUS +79 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com