Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
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Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
#2Cool.
Also what, Ehtséo Ayah didn't see a great mushroom in the distance? That's pretty disappointing
Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
#3Cool. Also what, Ehtséo Ayah didn't see a great mushroom in the distance? That's pretty disappointing
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#4Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian Congo (most of that was actually shipped across the Atlantic before the US entered the war- it was stored on Staten Island for safekeeping before US entry and the creation of the Manhattan Project). I don't know much about the US uranium, but I do know that the Belgian Congo uranium mining was also done under a racist colonial system that exploited the locals and gave them inadequate protection or understanding of the risks they were taking. Postwar US Uranium mines in Arizona and Utah also used Dine (Navajo) and other native peoples with similar levels of racism, exploitation, leaving thousands of people sick etc.
There are surprisingly strong parallels to the current 'Race for Lithium' and 'Race for Rare Earths'- hard-rock mining is a terrible business all the way around.
Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
#5Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian Congo (most of that was actually shipped across the Atlantic before the US entered the war- it was stored on Staten Island for safekeeping before US entry and the creation of the Manhattan Pr…
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#6Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian Congo (most of that was actually shipped across the Atlantic before the US entered the war- it was stored on Staten Island for safekeeping before US entry and the creation of the Manhattan Pr…
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#7Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian Congo (most of that was actually shipped across the Atlantic before the US entered the war- it was stored on Staten Island for safekeeping before US entry and the creation of the Manhattan Pr…
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If colonial Congo isn't a good example of racism, then I don't know what is. Here is an idyllic postcard for the Belgians back home to show how colonial rule is going: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo#/media/File:Muti...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If colonial Congo isn't a good example of racism, then I don't know what is. Here is an idyllic postcard for the Belgians back home to show how colonial rule is going: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo#/media/File:Muti...
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Bro you seem personally attacked. Do you feel personally attacked by an open discussion of the realities of race and racism in the 20th century?