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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

Hecht, Gabrielle

Paperback

African HistoryTechnology & EngineeringInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0262526867
ISBN13: 9780262526869
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 29 2014
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.84 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The hidden history of African uranium and what it means--for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be nuclear.

Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous yellow cake from Niger, Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be nuclear.

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