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1 week agoFrom the Congo to Hiroshima: The colonial propaganda that powered the Manhattan Project
Uranium wasn't seen to hold very much value before World War II. It was much less important than radium, which sits alongside uranium in ores like pitchblende and carnotite and was widely used in medical settings and to make luminous instrument dials. Yet with the discovery of uranium's use in nuclear fission, what was once a byproduct became these ores' most hotly desired component.
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