How a rich uranium mine thrust the Congo into the centre of the Cold War: The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, which dropped the first atomic bomb in history. The bomb was made from Congolese ore. ReutersDuring World War II the US sought to secure all the uranium from the Shinkolobwe mine in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for its atomic bomb project. The … [Read more...] about How a rich uranium mine thrust the Congo into the centre of the Cold War | The Conversation
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