Nuclear desire [electronic resource] : power and the postcolonial nuclear order / Shampa Biswas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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