Since Australia has the second largestknown uranium reserves in the world, its nuclear politics areessential to understanding the global maneuvers of all other majornuclear players.

Much of Australia seems to have beensettled by British convicts granted both freedom from prison andwhite skin privilege in exchange for advancing the claims of theBritish Empire, which decimated the native, aboriginal Australianpopulation, by as much as 90%, as a result of disease, loss of landthat sustained them, and direct violence, between 1788 and 1900(http://tinyurl.com/5dssux )