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

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 6:28 AM UTC

nonethewiser wrote: post #45

542354234235 wrote: post #23

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>Not exactly just exploiting minorities. They didn't say "just" or "only" minorities. However, most of the mines were located on or near, Navajo land and over 4 million tons of ore came for that land. The workers were disproportionately Navajo and the land is now poisoned with radioactive waste from the mining, with cancer rates doubling from the 1970s to the 1990s. Land the Navajo were forced onto. Recognizing the d…

Only one worth mentioning though apparently

Post by Dah00n » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 6:37 AM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #40

dylan604 wrote: post #37

Being from the US, I've noticed several times where a Canadian has popped up and said something similar to a boast that Canadians helped with something that is primarily an American thing. It always ways feels like the little brother chiming in "but I helped too!" I find it very endearing. Kind of a Wally and Beaver moment.

> helped with something that is primarily an American thing To be clear though, a huge amount of the key players were foreign scientists or foreign educated, such as Oppenheimer himself. We need to keep this in mind because although the U.S. helped pull all this together, we couldn't have done it without the foreign help we received. This is important in today's climate that gets more and more nationalistic by the da…

Post by scrubs » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 11:27 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #48

scrubs wrote: post #29

Lived in the nwt for many years as a kid. Highlights? A lot: - good schools. I miss Ms. Carter - travel extensively through Yukon - great shape: shoveled a lot of snow and frozen Canadian ice cream. Lots of cross country skiing - maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa - had a decent fossil collection for a while - got into a lot of trouble (having fun). Still know k-6 principal name (Ms. Wind and h…

> - maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa It's fairly findable in the Northeast (as is maple walnut fudge). The best maple walnut ice cream I've ever had was at a place called Brickley's[1] in Rhode Island. 1: https://www.brickleys.com/