Inspired by Barbieheimer, this week Aileen and Kariithi talk about uranium mining in Africa, and what the nuclear age meant for the motherland.
Discretions: Barbie (ofc), Oppenheimer (offc), Black Panther,
Sources
Books
Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle – Thomas Borstelmann
Spies in the Congo – Susan Williams
Being Nuclear (Africans and the Global Uranium Trade) – Gabrielle Hecht
Everything Else (lol)
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200712/physicshistory.cfm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/7/a-beginners-guide-to-enriching-uranium
https://www.jstor.org/stable/161468
https://qz.com/africa/1216925/searching-for-wakanda-the-african-roots-of-the-black-panther-story
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589346.2012.683940
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=1141
https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/masiza11.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/static/review-spies-in-congo.pdf
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1152&context=gc_etds
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=history_etds