Upon visiting the State Library of Victoria on a warm February morning, Sam Wallman and Reuben Winmar speculate on what Ned Kelly might get up to if he was alive today.

Uranium has come a long way from the “modern Midas mineral” of the 1950s. However, in an increasingly dangerous, militaristic and volatile world, it remains a lucrative and potentially lethal metal. And it is so important precisely because of its contested past and possible futures.