Being Nuclear - Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
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.
| Autor: | Hecht, Gabrielle |
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| EAN: | 9780262017268 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 440 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | MIT Press |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 16.05.2012 |
| Untertitel: | Africans and the Global Uranium Trade |
| Schlagworte: | Uran Uranbergbau |
| Größe: | 32 × 162 × 230 |
| Gewicht: | 782 g |
