Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade The MIT Press, 2012
Gabrielle Hecht, ed., Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War The MIT Press, 2011
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Uranium is so dangerous that certain words -- Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima -- evoke images of horror and destruction. But uranium would do nothing and go nowhere if it weren't first extracted from the ground. While describing the toll uranium production has taken on people's lives, Gabrielle Hecht considers corporate conduct, regulatory policy, racial politics, and postcolonial dynamics.