Being Nuclear Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

Name: Being Nuclear Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
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ISBN: 9780262526869

ISBN-10: 0262526867

ISBN-13: 9780262526869

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gabrielle Hecht

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Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomicweapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous "yellow cake fromNiger," Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclearweapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to theselect 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, anindustry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." Hecht shows that questionsabout being nuclear--a state that she calls "nuclearity"--lie at the heart of…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/3/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

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 (MIT Press).