The hidden history of African uranium and what it means-for a
state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be "nuclear." 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.
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