Nuclear geopolitics. Shifting sands along Africa’s Uranium Road

... secretary of state Colin Powell and British prime minister Tony Blair in their effort to talk up the nuclear threat that would sell the president George Bush $3 trillion Iraq war. The “yellow cake” in question was alleged to have come from Niger, which has a historic contractual relationship with the French state owned uranium mining and processing industry. Some American media outlets, including Time magazine, dismissed the claim at the onset as being false. The consequences of the $3 ...