As filmgoers enjoy the Oppenheimer biopic, many may not know that Canada played a key role in his work and the development of atomic weapons
The United States was skeptical — they felt that some of the people on the research team were a
The other contribution largely revolves around mining operations by the Dene people in the Northwest Territories. At the time, the other sources, according to historians, were in Czechoslovakia, which was then occupied by the Germans, and the Belgian Congo. While ore was used from these places, Canada was a major source.process “pitchblende”
“It is impossible to trace the exact fate of the ores processed in Canada, but for the first 3 years of the Manhattan Project, ores processed at Port Hope made up the majority of the uranium oxide used in the Manhattan Project,”wrote in an article on Canada’s contributions in the journal Nuclear Technology.
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