Screen LibraryUranium：war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world
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Viking,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 337 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780670020645 0670020648 |
| Index Number: | U614 |
| CLC: | U614.62 |
| Call Number: | U614.62/Z85 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-318) and index. The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield. Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust, and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts, and America would knowingly send more than 600 uranium miners to their graves in the name of national security. Fortunes have been made from this yellow dirt; massive ene |