This is a 2016 French translation of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), translated by Charlotte Nordmann and part of the series "L'Univers Historique."
From MIT University Press Abstract: "Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her first book, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT 1998), won...