The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show

Photo caption: A worker in the Shinkolobwe mine, a major source of the uranium for the first atomic bomb. Photo credit: AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam. Article by Ngofeen Mputubwele. Wired – updated August 22, 2023.

Papà, my dad, told me a story long ago about the uranium that powered the first nuclear bomb. The one dropped on Hiroshima; one of the bombs you saw being built in this summer’s dramatic film, Oppenheimer. Papà, you see, was born in the Belgian Congo. Earlier this […]

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