Some of his many other posts included being the Defence Scientific Adviser and chairman of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee from 1948 to 1968 . He was present at the British Operation Hurricane nuclear test in the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia in October 1952 , and then for Operation Totem tests at Emu Field in South Australia in October 1953 . When the British government established the Maralinga Test Range in 1953 , the Australian government created the Maralinga Safety Committee , which became the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee , with Martin as its chairman . As such he was responsible for safety of the Operation Mosaic tests at Monte Bello in May and June 1956 , and Operation Buffalo tests at Maralinga in September and October 1956 , after which he handed over the chairmanship to Ernest Titterton . An advocate for the peaceful use atomic energy , Martin became a member of the Industrial Atomic Energy Policy Committee in 1949 , and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 . In 1958 he was an Australian delegate to the United Nations conference on Atoms for Peace in Vienna . That year , he was appointed a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission , and was its deputy chairman when he retired in 1968
Operation Hurricane
Operation Hurricane
Leslie H. Martin