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Viking
March 2009
On Sale: March 10, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0670020648
EAN: 9780670020645
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Non-Fiction
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy
the earth can yield Uranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the
only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all
life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the
global order—whoever could master uranium could master the
world. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a
miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to
believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built
around mine shafts and America would knowingly send more
than six hundred uranium miners to their graves in the name
of national security. Fortunes have been made from this
yellow dirt; massive energy grids have been run from it.
Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a
questionable war with Iraq and its specter threatens to
create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can
help avoid a global warming catastrophe. In Uranium, Tom
Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing
look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it.
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1 comment posted.
Re: Uranium
The author: Tom Zoellner, writes in his book Uranium (Chapter: Two Rushes) about a
nickname for the lumps of uranium: Heilerde, and translates it as "holy ground".
Whoever came up with this translation for him was wrong. The proper translation
should be: "healing earth".
Werner W. Schulze 24 April 2010
(Werner Schulze 5:18pm April 24, 2010)
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