The Wretched Atom (Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2021)

In The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (2021), Jacob Hamblin tackles the concept of peaceful nuclear energy by arguing that the promise of atomic energy was deeply intertwined with Western postcolonial policies and was always linked to the United States nuclear weapon industry. Based on rich archival work, the book tells the telling story of the development of atomic energy from the Manhattan Project to recent decades.