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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)

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Post by version_five »

mandevil wrote: post #4

Based 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…

Does this have something to do with the article? It reads like a random "mining is racist" rant which has set off some fighting.

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by mecsred »

truthtold wrote: post #8
juujian wrote: post #7

Earlier 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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The very first thing in the article is a description of the exploitation of native populations in uranium mining. It couldn't be more on topic.

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by twaway735 »

RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #10
truthtold wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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?

I feel disgust for people who go around calling others racist

Its a sort of religion, and there's the fanatics who accuse others of heresy.

I'd feel the same disgust for ISIS activists

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by version_five »

kotaKat wrote: post #3
lincon127 wrote: post #2

Cool. Also what, Ehtséo Ayah didn't see a great mushroom in the distance? That's pretty disappointing

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This is inaccurate, revisionist and offensive to most Canadians, and has no place in this kind of forum.

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by etc-hosts »

llm_nerd wrote: post #9
kotaKat wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not only was the mine primarily staffed by "whites", uranium ore has negligible health risks.

I read through the linked article. I didn't find anything specific about the ratio of First Nation to white workers in the mines.

According to this article, it was mostly First Nation workers in the ore mines. https://ejatlas.org/conflict/mining-and-transportation-of-ur...

Here's another article about the workers in the ore mines. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/natives-worked-unprotected-in...

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by [deleted] »

version_five wrote: post #11
mandevil wrote: post #4

Based 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…

Does this have something to do with the article? It reads like a random "mining is racist" rant which has set off some fighting.

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Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by RosanaAnaDana »

twaway735 wrote: post #13
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I feel disgust for people who go around calling others racist Its a sort of religion, and there's the fanatics who accuse others of heresy. I'd feel the same disgust for ISIS activists

Can you show me where in the comment some one called someone else racist?

Otherwise, it seems like you are projecting yourself onto the Belgium Congo being identified as racist, which is just like a "Well yeah duh" level of racism. It seems like you are angry that the Belgium Congo was identified as a racist enterprise, which even by their own accounts is objectively true. So do you self identify with the Belgium Congo?

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by oaththrowaway »

mandevil wrote: post #4

Based 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…

> 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.

Not exactly just exploiting minorities. My grandpa died because he mined Uranium post-war, but he was white and afaik so was everyone he worked with.

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by 542354234235 »

version_five wrote: post #11
mandevil wrote: post #4

Based 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…

Does this have something to do with the article? It reads like a random "mining is racist" rant which has set off some fighting.

The subtitle of the article is "A mine in the Northwest Territories provided much of the uranium used during the Manhattan Project—unbeknownst to the indigenous people who worked there." So broader commentary on uranium mining in other places using indigenous peoples is relevant and using history to compare to modern day is relevant.

Re: Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)

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Post by fsh »

llm_nerd wrote: post #9
kotaKat wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not only was the mine primarily staffed by "whites", uranium ore has negligible health risks.

Breathing in dust from uranium ore, or its decay product Radon is very much a health risk: https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-waste-uranium-mining...
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