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It provides energy to millions of people, and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. However, it is also at the heart of many of the planet's most deadly threats, including nuclear devastation and radioactive waste. Its mining has caused bitter conflict with indigenous peoples, and its testing in nuclear weapons has left a toxic legacy. Yet, the nonproliferation regime, which aims to phase out nuclear weapons and manage the risks of nuclear energy, is at risk of unravelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Anthony Burke explores the geopolitical intrigue around uranium and the dilemmas of justice and security to which its development has given rise. The twenty-first century, he cautions, will be a time of reckoning, and new reserves of political will must be found to manage the impact of this extraordinary mineral. 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In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics that envelop cotton as major corporate players and countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas compete to control it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of sweatshop scandal exposés and factory collapse disasters, merchants and retailers have called for \u003cem\u003ebetter\u003c\/em\u003e cotton farming practices. But in seeking to prevent the next transnational media circus, will companies simply end up cementing business-as-usual?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate public relations strategy now competes directly with the voices of an alternative global community that seeks to fundamentally transform the way that cotton is farmed. 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