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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade - Hecht, Gabrielle, Professor
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Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2002, George W. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein had 'sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (later specified as the infamous 'yellowcake 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 ...

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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade 2014, MIT Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780262526869

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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade 2012, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

ISBN-13: 9780262017268

Hardcover