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1 Mark Oliphant’s Adventures in Atomic Wonderland Kathryn Keeble , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Double Dialogues , Summer no. 13 2010; 'Australian physicist Mark Oliphant came to hold two oppositional views, both pro and anti nuclear weapons research. This, together with the dimensions of his ‘larger than life’ personality, impacted on his scientific reputation in the fall-out of Australia’s ‘McCarthyism’. Despite his bullying the Americans into funding the A-Bomb project, the atomic juggernaut unleashed on the world caused Oliphant to rethink his role as a scientist. Oliphant clashed with American hegemony and the Menzies Government’s duplication of the ‘Reds under the Bed’ paranoia in Australia in the 1950s. His outspokenness on the danger of nuclear proliferation found him out of step with the changed political climate of the Cold War. Drawing on neglected archival material and using a Brechtian theatrical mode, my play Ion Man’s Adventures in Atomic Wonderland investigates the tragic dimensions of a man who never fully understood, as Thomas Kuhn explained (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions), that scientific research is determined as much by politics and ideology as by the desire to understand the world.' Source: The author (Sighted 02/03/2011)
1 1 Ion Man's Adventures in Atomic Wonderland Kathryn Keeble , 2010 single work drama
1 Dissent Kathryn Keeble , 2010 single work drama detective 'A reflection on the precarious situation faced by journalists in Russia. "Dissent" is a detective story based on the 2007 death of a Russian journalist, Ivan Safronov, who worked for the Moscow daily newspaper, Kommersant,' Source: http://hartwellplayers.org.au/ (Sighted 01/03/2011).
1 Aftermath Kathryn Keeble , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing [2010] 2010; A story of a former IRA gunman’s haunting past.
1 Hostages Kathryn Keeble , 2004 single work drama
1 Year 2 Kathryn Keeble , 2003 single work drama
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