Since it first announced electricity “too cheap to meter,” in the 1950s, the nuclear industry has promised bountiful futures powered by a peaceful—and safe—atom ...
Gabrielle Hecht
Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security at Stanford University. She has published two award-winning books on the nuclear age: The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, [1998] 2009) and Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press, 2012).