Being Nuclear - Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
(Sprache: Englisch)
Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any...
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Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 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.¿ Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear--a state that she calls ¿nuclearity¿--lie at the heart of today¿s global nuclear order and the relationships between ¿developing nations¿ (often former colonies) and ¿nuclear powers¿ (often former colonizers). Nuclearity, she says, is not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one.
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Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africas 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. Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear--a state that she calls nuclearity--lie at the heart of todays global nuclear order and the relationships between developing nations (often former colonies) and nuclear powers (often former colonizers). Nuclearity, she says, is not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one.
Autoren-Porträt von Gabrielle Hecht
Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II and editor of Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War, both published by the MIT Press.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gabrielle Hecht
- 2012, 440 Seiten, 53 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,3 x 23,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262017261
- ISBN-13: 9780262017268
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance of the subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement." -- Jock McCulloch, Journal of African History
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