The Wretched Atom
America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2021. december 9.
- ISBN 9780197526903
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem328 oldal
- Méret 157x239x30 mm
- Súly 612 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 20 halftones 169
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Rövid leírás:
Written by a prize-winning historian, The Wretched Atom is an authoritative history and a sweeping indictment of so-called peaceful nuclear technologies in the countries of the developing world.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
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.
Throughout the work, Hamblin's thoughtful attention to the neocolonial workings of the "cornucopian illusion" of atomic power transforms what could have been a staid programmatic history into a much richer story at the intersection of the history of science and technology, diplomatic history, and the history of decolonization.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Have-Nots
Chapter Two: A Thousand Years into One
Chapter Three: Forgetting the Bad Dreams of the Past
Chapter Four: Colored and White Atoms
Chapter Five: Turf Wars and Green Revolutions
Chapter Six: Water, Blood, and the Nuclear Club
Chapter Seven: Nuclear Mosques and Monuments
Chapter Eight: The Era of Distrust
Conclusion: The Cornucopian Illusion
Notes
Index
