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The wretched atom : America's global gamble with peaceful nuclear technology / Jacob Darwin Hamblin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamblin, Jacob Darwin, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear industry--United States--History--20th century.
- Nuclear industry.
- Nuclear energy--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear energy.
- Nuclear energy--Economic aspects--United States.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--International cooperation.
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The have-nots
- A thousand years into one
- Forgetting the bad dreams of the past
- Colored and white atoms
- Turf wars and green revolutions
- Water, blood, and the nuclear club
- Nuclear mosques and monuments
- The era of distrust
- Conclusion: The cornucopian illusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-752692-6
- 0-19-752693-4
- OCLC:
- 1226073251
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