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Another Australian devotee here -- and brooding over whether Australia should politely abandon the now eminently questionable AUKUS Program (of which DJT appears/appeared unaware) and reconsider (if it has not already) its antique nuclear weapons "project", seek its own appropriate partners (NZ, Canada, UK, France, Germany -- as amended, the Scandinavians -- as amended, even India???, Pakistan????) and, perhaps, anticipate the oncoming rush.

Walsh J. (1997) "Surprise Down Under: The Secret History of Australia's Nuclear Ambitions", The Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1997, pp.1-20 -- https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/walsh51.pdf

Harris M. (2022) "Mentor and student: how Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant changed nuclear physics", Physics World, 2 Dec 2022 --

https://physicsworld.com/a/mentor-and-student-how-ernest-rutherford-and-mark-oliphant-changed-nuclear-physics/

Reynolds W. (1998) "Rethinking the Joint Project: Australia's Bid for Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1960", The Historical Journal , Sep., 1998, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 853-873 -- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2639906

https://www.mup.com.au/books/australias-bid-for-the-atomic-bomb-paperback-softback

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