Books
The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998).
• 2004 Re-publication as an ACLS e-book.
• New print edition, MIT Press, 2009; foreword by Michel Callon and afterword by the author.
• Awards: Edelstein Prize (2001), Society for the History of Technology; Henry Baxter Adams Prize (1999), American Historical Association; Runner-up, Ludwik Fleck Prize (2000), Society for the Social Studies of Science, for The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998).
Le rayonnement de la France: Énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale (Paris, France: Éditions de la Découverte, Collection Anthropologie des Sciences et Techniques, 2004).
Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes (MIT Press, 2001). Co-editor with Michael Thad Allen.
Articles & essays
“Africa and the Nuclear World: Labor, Occupational Health, and the Transnational Production of Uranium,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 51-4 (October 2009), forthcoming.
“Uranium from Africa,” Chimurenga 14: Everyone Has Their Indian (March 2009).
“The Technopolitics of Cold War: Towards a Transregional Perspective,” with Paul N. Edwards. American Historical Association series in Global and Comparative History, Michael Adas, ed., 2008.
“Nuclear Ontologies,” Constellations 13:3 (September 2006): 320-331.
“Negotiating Global Nuclearities: Apartheid, Decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA,” in John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth, eds., Global Power Knowledge: Science, Technology, and International Affairs, in Osiris 21 (July 2006): 25-48.
“Rupture-talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa,” Social Studies of Science Vol. 32, Nos. 5-6 (October-December 2002): 691-728.
“Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France,” Technology and Culture (October 1994): 657-685.
Awards: Abbott Payson Usher Prize (1996), Society for the History of Technology; Levinson Prize (1991), Society for the History of Technology (in mss form); Newcomen Prize (1991), Newcomen Society (in mss form).