[13] March 3 - Jáchymov/Joachimsthal, the uranium industry, and transnational history
Assigned reading:
Zbynek Zeman and Rainer Karlsch, Uranium Matters: Central European Uranium in International Politics, 1900-1960 (2008), 69-117.
Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africa and the Global Uranium Trade (2012), 6-16.
Further reading:
Jonathan E. Helmreich, Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943-1954 (1986).
Matthew Adamson, Lino Cambrubí, and Simone Turchetti, “From the Ground Up: Uranium Surveillance and Atomic Energy in Western Europe,” in The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond, edited by Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts (2014), 23–44.
John Krige, "Hybrid knowledge: The transnational co-production of the gas centrifuge for uranium enrichment in the 1960s," British Journal for the History of Science 45 (2012): 337-357.
Simone Turchetti, Néstor Herran, and Soraya Boudia, “Have We Ever Been ‘Transnational’? Towards a History of Science across and beyond Borders,” British Journal for the History of Science 45 (2012): 319–36.