Uranium war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400190324 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1400190320 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 12:58:43. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Patrick Lawlor. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 186573 KB; MP3 file size: 365692 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Uranium Uranium -- History |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
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 energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a questionable war with Iraq and its specter threatens to create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can help avoid a global warming catastrophe.--From publisher description.