Re: On The Beach - accuracy?

[Ken Duncan <kaduncan@gil.com.au>]

in article Kobe6.23$CB3.3239@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net, David Martin at
d_martin@mountains.net.au wrote on 1/2/01 9:02 PM:

> In the book (by Neville Shute, author of "A Town Like Alice" and "The Far
> Country", they live on an electrified line. Electricity comes from coal.
> Whilst the book (written early 1960's) says we produce no oil, that has
> changed. We now produce a large proportion of our oil needs.
> 
> The story (in the book) was that cobalt bombs were used - lethal radiation
> for 5 years. Does anyone actually have any of these?
> With normal nukes, you can come out of your fallout shelter after 2 weeks.
> 
>> 
>> The premise was that Australia doesn't produce any oil, but had lots of
>> coal. That's why there was a steam loco on the country train.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> David
> 
> 


Well, I'm glad I didn't watch long enough to actually pick up the
plot...perhaps the books is better!

KD