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Did you know that the uranium used to bomb the citizens of Hiroshima was mined at a forbidden site known as 'the money place' by First Nation people in northern Canada? Or have you heard about the environmental damage and social upheavals at the Atomic City of Oak Ridge? And…
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With particular reference to recent exploits by Russia and other nuclear powers, in January 2025, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to doom since its inception in 1947. How do we live with the possibility of our world, perhaps sooner rather than later, coming to an end in a nuclear conflagration?
Anke Peder’s utterly fascinating short book outlines how deeply nuclear awareness has penetrated all aspects of our culture across the last eight decades and how it has twisted people’s imagination, how much damage…
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