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Nuclear desire : power and the postcolonial nuclear order /

Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 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. According to Shampa Biswas, these well-intentioned efforts to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biswas, Shampa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.