Being Nuclear

Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

Gabrielle Hecht (Professor, Stanford University)

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English

MIT Press
29 August 2014

Political structure & processes; International economics; Nuclear power industries; Nuclear power & engineering

Series: The MIT Press

"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."

By: Gabrielle Hecht (Professor Stanford University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780262526869
ISBN 10: 0262526867
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 29 August 2014
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Radiance of France- Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press).

Reviews for Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance of the subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement. -- Jock McCulloch, Journal of African History

Joint winner for American Historical Association Martin A. Klein Prize in African History 2012.
Winner of <PrizeName>Co-winner, 2012 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, awarded by the American Historical Society.</PrizeName> 2012
Winner of <PrizeName>Finalist, 2013 Melville Herkovits Award, African Studies Association</PrizeName> 2012
Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2013 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.</PrizeName> 2012
Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2013 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship</PrizeName> 2012
Winner of Co-winner, 2012 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, awarded by the American Historical Society. 2012