Taking Australia Off The Map: Facing The Threat Of Nuclear War (1983) By Jim Falk
 
There is a dearth of information about the peculiar logistics of Australian survival in a nuclear war and a disturbing lack of awareness concerning Civil Defense in Oz. This is pretty odd for a country that was attacked on it's own soil repeatedly in the last war.

The initial scenarios presented by Falk of a detonation in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne are gripping and the book starts off well with this opening. Unfortunately it kind of goes down hill after that into a dry analysis of many political topics concerning the relationship between Australia and its neighbours. There is not much depth at all to the chapters on civil defense, which are both half hearted in observations and recommendations. One is left with the impression that almost all Australians, including Falk, are missing the plot completely ... and that it is going to cost them their lives and kin when the inevitable arrives.

Upon concluding this book I felt that Australians as a nation are guaranteed to end up a bunch of radioactive tater tots in the next war. They are still laboring under the ridiculous notion that their geographic isolation provides them with some degree of protection from weapons of mass destruction when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.
 
Hard Cover
290 pages
In Good Condition