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Author : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471244
An innovative account of the first nuclear programme in independent Africa, centring on the promises and perils of atomic research in Ghana.
Author : Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262526869
The hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous “yellow cake from Niger,” Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something—a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear—a state that she calls “nuclearity”—lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between “developing nations” (often former colonies) and “nuclear powers” (often former colonizers). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.
Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015004459833
Author : Al J. Venter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082646772
Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1541768299
African Independence movements from former colonial powers were unsuccessful governments. But not because they lacked the skills. They were systematically undermined by one nation: the US. This is the sweeping history of how, over a few vital years, African Independence was strangled at birth. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose, inspired by the example of Ghana itself which, under the charismatic leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, had just thrown off the British colonial yoke - the first African nation to do so. It was moment heady with promise for independence movements across Africa, and for all those who believed colonialism was a moral aberration. Among the supporters of African independence were some of the leading figures of the American Civil Rights movement. Malcolm X was in Accra and Martin Luther King used Nkrumah's speech as the basis for his own "Free At Last" speech, so clear were the parallels between their own struggle for political equality in the US with that of the African Nations. W. E. B. Du Bois moved to Ghana, inspired by the future of independent Africa. Yet among the many official messages of support received by the conference one nation was conspicuously quiet, despite its historic and public opposition to colonialism. America had vowed to dismantle the British Empire. Yet it was strangely silent about Hands Off Africa. Vice President Nixon did attend the celebrations in Ghana and asked a group of black people, "How does it feel to be free?"They answered: "We wouldn't know. We're from Alabama". The conference was also attended by a slew of strange societies, most promising support for African independence. They, however, were not all they seemed. Many were fronts, and behind them was the CIA. The CIA was in favor of the end of the British Empire but much less sure about what it wanted to replace it. A pan-African independence movement, one susceptible to Soviet entreaties, looked like a security threat. So the agency prepared to move in as Africa's colonizers moved out. Their baleful influence would be felt from South Africa (they tipped off the apartheid regime so that Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962) to Congo (where the firebrand prime minister Patrice Lumumba was murdered, one of any Africa leaders who died prematurely).
Author : Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787380653
Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America’s desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth, vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the enemy — a task entrusted to Washington’s elite secret intelligence agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men — and one woman — in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.
Author : Hannes Steyn,Richardt Van der Walt,Jan Van Loggerenberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : 9780595356652
South Africa was the first nation in the world to renounce and destroy its top-secret nuclear weapons capability. Its government also eliminated the ability to produce and deliver these warheads. Because no one archived the official documentary evidence of the program, various writers and scholars, as well as the public at large, have been left to speculate-and forget-the activities that consumed billions of rands and years of dedication. Based on facts and first-hand perspectives, Armament and Disarmament offers intimate views from three participants in the nuclear weapons program. A larger picture emerges through their recollections, fulfilling the role of essential perspectives and documentation where official records no longer exist. Out of secrecy and a need-to-know philosophy, many involved in the program, both wittingly and unwittingly, were never briefed as to how their particular endeavors fit into the bigger scheme. Armament and Disarmament sheds light on the complexity of events surrounding the South African nuclear weapons program and brings tribute to the ingenuity and dedication of all those involved.
Author : Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nuclear industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017888269
Author : Roy E. Horton
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428994843
The primary focus of this paper is the impact of key South African leaders on the successful developments and subsequent rollbacks of South Africa's nuclear weapons capability. It highlights the key milestones in the development of South Africa's nuclear weapon capability. It also relates how different groups within South Africa (scientists, politicians, military and technocrats) interacted to successfully produce South Africa's nuclear deterrent. It emphasizes the pivotal influence of the senior political leadership to pursue nuclear rollback given the disadvantages of its nuclear means to achieve vital national interests. The conclusions drawn from flu's effort are the South African nuclear program was an extreme response to its own identity Crisis. Nuclear weapons became a means to achieving a long term end of a closer affiliation with the West. A South Africa yearning to be identified as a Western nation and receive guarantees of its security rationalized the need for a nuclear deterrent. The deterrent was intended to draw in Western support to counter a feared total onslaught by Communist forces in the region. Two decades later, that same South Africa relinquished its nuclear deterrent and reformed its domestic policies to secure improved economic and political integration with the West.
Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610396554
In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only supply of uniquely high-quality uranium ore -- the key ingredient for bomb -- could be found in the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo at the Shinkolobwe Mine. Once the US Manhattan Project was committed to developing atomic weapons for the war against Germany and Japan, the rush to procure this uranium became a top priority -- one deemed "vital to the welfare of the United States." But covertly exporting it from Africa posed a major risk: the ore had to travel via a spy-infested Angolan port or 1,500 miles by rail through the Congo, and then be shipped by boats or Pan Am Clippers to safety in the United States. It could be poached or smuggled at any point on the orders of Nazi Germany. To combat that threat, the US Office of Strategic Services sent in a team of intrepid spies, led by Wilbur Owings "Dock" Hogue, to be America's eyes and ears and to protect its most precious and destructive cargo. Packed with newly discovered details from American and British archives, this is the gripping, true story of the unsung heroism of a handful of good men -- and one woman -- in colonial Africa who risked their lives in the fight against fascism and helped deny Hitler his atomic bomb.
Author : South Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UCR:31210024903864
Author : South Africa. Atomic Energy Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015003445189
Author : South Africa. Atomic Energy Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015003445205
Author : United States Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Raw Materials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Ore deposits
ISBN : CORNELL:31924005032424
Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015011995969
