Flying Through a Nuclear Cloud: Twenty Years on the Frontline During the Cold War

Flying Though a Nuclear Cloud is the unusual story of a frontline navigator who flew on Canberra, Shackleton and F4 Phantom squadrons between 1954 and 1974.It also reveals his involvement with nuclear weapon testing in 1956 and 1958.It was during his time on Canberras that, in 1955, volunteers were called for ‘An Interesting Overseas Tour’.Robin Adams put his hand up. The task was to collect samples resulting from nuclear explosions.This, however, was only revealed to the volunteers after they had arrived in Australia. On 19 June 1956 that Robin, then the navigator of Canberra WH976, took off from the RAAF Perth.Along with his pilot, Robin was about to be involved in the second and final nuclear test under Operation Mosaic - both explosions taking place at the Montebello Islands. In 1957 Robin joined Coastal Command flying the Avro Shackleton.After this interlude, a year later he was back nuclear testing.This time it was at Christmas Island in the Pacific, with the awesome megaton H bo