Event #41
Elizabeth Tynan: Nuclear Archipelago
Underground Theatre
Regular Program
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Elizabeth Tynan: Nuclear Archipelago
In conversation with Ian Lowe
2–3pm, Friday 9 October, Underground Theatre
What lessons can we learn from our historical fascination with, and fear of, nuclear warfare? Since 2016, renowned author and academic Elizabeth Tynan has been chronicling the history of British nuclear testing in Australia, and Nuclear Archipelago is the final book in her landmark trilogy on the subject. In telling the little-known story of the Western Australian weapons tests conducted in the 1950s, Tynan reveals the environmental and political fallout that lingers long into the twenty-first century.
#Artists
Elizabeth Tynan
Professor Elizabeth Tynan is a prominent writer and researcher of the era of British atomic testing in Australia. Her book Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story (NewSouth, 2016) won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (Australian History) in 2017.
Ian Lowe
Formally educated in physics, Ian Lowe has been working for the last forty years on aspects of energy supply and use, especially environmental consequences such as climate change, as well as the broader issue of sustainable futures.
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