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.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/mining-of-uranium/world-uranium-mining-production.aspx

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

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/The%20Congo%20Crisis%2C%201960-1961.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185615