Atomic Testing

Atomic Testing
Book no.	24
Series	My Australian Story
Author	Alan Tucker
Publisher	Scholastic Australia
Published	February 1, 2009
Pages	187
ISBN	9781741692174
Setting	Woomera, South Australia
Timeline	May – November 1953
Preceded by
Chronology	The Bombing of Darwin
Publication	Claw of the Dragon
Followed by
Chronology	A Marathon of Her Own
Publication	The Hunt for Ned Kelly

Atomic Testing: The Diary of Anthony Brown is a fictional diary written by Alan Tucker. It is the twenty-fourth book in My Australian Story and Tucker's third for the series. The book was published in February 2009 and later reprinted with different cover art in August 2013.

Dedication

"To Deb, who gave me time and trust, and to the State Library of South Australia, who gave me information and a quiet space. AT"

Book description

• Original
• Relaunch

"The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come. What's she worried about? It's only a bomb."

"The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come.
What's she worried about? It's only a bomb.
When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret atomic testing project in outback South Australia, the family relocates from Townsville to Woomera. The controversial rocket and munitions testing captures Anthony's imagination.
But is it really as safe as the government says?"

Characters

Main article: List of Atomic Testing characters

• Anthony Brown

Author

Main article: Alan Tucker

Editions

• Physical
• eBook

Atomic Testing
My Australian Story reprint
9781741699067
(August 2013)

Atomic Testing
My Australian Story eBook
B00O1RJP8G
(August 2013)

Acknowledgements

"Thanks to the Mary Gibbs Children's Literature Trust, who provided me with their Canberra studio for two weeks in July 2005. The creative writing process began there and then."

Notes

• The portrait on the cover of the first edition is a flipped detail of a 1955 photograph from the State Library of South Australia. The images of the atom diagram and the bomb explosion were licensed from iStock.
• The cover of the second edition uses an image licensed from iStock.