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The Wretched Atom - America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (Hardcover)
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The Wretched Atom - America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the
promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its
gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After
the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom
that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts
bloom, and provide abundant energy for all. It was an atom destined
for the formerly colonized, recently occupied, and mostly non-white
parts of the world that were dubbed the "wretched of the earth" by
Frantz Fanon. The "peaceful atom" had so much propaganda potential
that President Dwight Eisenhower used it to distract the world from
his plan to test even bigger thermonuclear weapons. His scientists
said the peaceful atom would quicken the pulse of nature, speeding
nations along the path of economic development and helping them to
escape the clutches of disease, famine, and energy shortfalls. That
promise became one of the most misunderstood political weapons of
the twentieth century. It was adopted by every subsequent US
president to exert leverage over other nations' weapons programs,
to corner world markets of uranium and thorium, and to secure
petroleum supplies. Other countries embraced it, building reactors
and training experts. Atomic promises were embedded in Japan's
postwar recovery, Ghana's pan-Africanism, Israel's quest for
survival, Pakistan's brinksmanship with India, and Iran's pursuit
of nuclear independence. As The Wretched Atom shows, promoting
civilian atomic energy was an immense gamble, and it was never
truly peaceful. American promises ended up exporting violence and
peace in equal measure. While the United States promised peace and
plenty, it planted the seeds of dependency and set in motion the
creation of today's expanded nuclear club.
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