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Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the energy to get rid of all life on the planet. After World Conflict II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could get better at uranium could get better at the globe. Marie Curie offered us wish that uranium will be a miracle panacea, however the Manhattan Project offered 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 600 uranium miners with their graves in the name of national security. Fortunes have been created from this yellow dirt and grime; large energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into encouraging a questionable conflict with Iraq, and its own specter threatens to set-up another turmoil in Iran. Now, some are expecting it can help avoid a worldwide warming catastrophe. In Uranium, Tom Zoellner requires readers around the world in this interesting go through the mineral that can sustain life or kill it.
