Nuclear desire : power and the postcolonial nuclear order / Shampa Biswas.

Author/creator Biswas, Shampa author.
Format Book
PublicationMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Descriptionxvi, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Nuclear nonproliferation--Political aspects. --History.
Nuclear arms control--History.
Postcolonialism.

Contents Introduction : use and waste in the global nuclear order -- Intentions and effects : the proliferation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime -- Whose nuclear order? : a postcolonial critique of an enlightenment project -- Unusable, dangerous, and desirable : nuclear weapons as fetish commodities -- Costly weapons : the political economy of nuclear power -- Conclusion. Decolonizing the nuclear world : can the subaltern speak? -- Appendix: The nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014005524
ISBN9780816680979 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816680973 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816680986 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816680981 (pb : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JZ5675 .B57 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold