Bibliograph

Spies in the Congo, the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb, Susan Williams

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Spies in the Congo, the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb, Susan Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327), filmography, and index

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platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spies in the Congo

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bibliographyfilmographies

Responsibility statement

Susan Williams

Sub title

the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb

Summary

This is the true story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War. It is set against the background of one of the most tightly guarded secrets of the war - America's struggle to secure enough high quality uranium to build atomic bombs. These efforts were focused on the Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo, which was described within the Manhattan Project as the 'most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world'. Uranium from this mine was used to build the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945

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