Wretched Atom

Wretched Atom

America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2021

328

Dura

Inglês

9780197526903

15 a 20 dias

582

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"Peaceful nuclear technology...was presented to the world as atonement for the nuclear sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Clean and cheap nuclear power would make deserts bloom and eradicate poverty. These goals were never realized, and, Hamblin argues, they were never meant to be...Hamblin...portrays countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America as abiding by US rules in hopes of receiving potentially liberating technology only to
have these hopes dashed by imperialist attitudes and interests...Hamblin's ability to endow this overlooked topic with coherence and meaning is nothing short of brilliant." -- Paul Rubinson, American
Historical Review
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