Being Nuclear - Gabrielle Hecht

Being Nuclear

Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

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Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2012
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-01726-8 (ISBN)
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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. 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." 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). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa.
By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.

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).

Zusatzinfo 53 b&w photos
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 771 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-262-01726-1 / 0262017261
ISBN-13 978-0-262-01726-8 / 9780262017268
Zustand Neuware
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