History & The Arts
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
...communities. Uranium mining, essential for gathering the raw materials required to produce some types of nuclear weapons, exposes miners to exceptionally high levels of radiation, which has resulted in untold numbers of illness and deaths. The uranium used in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from mines as far afield as Congo and Canada, with the mining carried out by...
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