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Autore |
Biswas Shampa |
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Nuclear desire : power and the postcolonial nuclear order / / Shampa Biswas |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nuclear nonproliferation - Political aspects - History |
Nuclear arms control - History |
Postcolonialism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Use and Waste in the Global Nuclear Order; 1. Intentions and Effects: The Proliferation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; 2. Whose Nuclear Order? A Postcolonial Critique of an Enlightenment Project; 3. Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable: Nuclear Weapons as Fetish Commodities; 4. Costly Weapons: The Political Economy of Nuclear Power; Conclusion. Decolonizing the Nuclear World: Can the Subaltern Speak?; Appendix. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q |
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Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has become one node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. However, according to Shampa Biswas, these well-intentioned efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons deflect attention from a hierarchical global nuclear order dominated by powerful states and capitalist interests that benefit from the status quo. In Nuclear Desire, Biswas proposes that pursuit and production of nuclear power is sustained by thi |
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