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    Belgium helped build the A-Bomb used on Hiroshima

    I have just learnt today that the uranium of the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima was provided by Belgium. It came from the colony of Belgian Congo.

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    That would have made the refining process easier. The African ore is much better.

    I thought it all came from the Oljato mine in Utah and the Morrison mines in Colorado. The better ore from the Congo and Zaire was used after the war ended. I don't have a source though, this is from memory. Where did your information come from.

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    i wonder if there are de-classified documents on the manhattan project,source of uranium should've noted on file.

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    The Utah mine was just in the news because several people were poisoned by mud bricks made from slag from the mines. People didn't know... and slowly irradiated themselves.

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    There seems to be a possibility that the North Korean uranium was mined in the Congo.

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    The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources

    The National Security Archive publishes declassified documents and summaries of them and can be read online.




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