Being Nuclear Africans and the Global Uranium Trade【電子書籍】[ Gabrielle Hecht ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The hidden history of African uranium and what it meansーfor a state, an object, an industry, a workplaceーto be “nuclear.”＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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ーa state, an object, an industry, a workplaceーto be “nuclear.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hecht shows that questions about being nuclearーa state that she calls “nuclearity”ーlie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between “developing nations” (often former colonies) and “nuclear powers” (often former colon．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る