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Spies in the Congo : the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb
- Title
- Spies in the Congo : the race for the ore that built the atomic bomb / Susan Williams.
- Author
- Williams, A. Susan
- Publication
- London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 369 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- United States. Office of Strategic Services > History
- United States. Office of Strategic Services
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > United States
- Uranium mines and mining > Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Atomic bomb > United States > History > 20th century
- Atomic bomb
- Secret service
- Uranium mines and mining
- Uranbergbau
- Geheimunternehmen
- Manhattan-Projekt
- Warfare and Defence
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- United States
- Demokratische Republik Kongo
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327), filmography, and index.
- Contents
- Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, 2 August 1939 -- The Manhattan Project and Shinkolobwe -- TETON -- CRISP -- CRUMB -- Chief of Station, Congo -- 'Attention! Bloc radioactif!' -- ANGELLA -- 'Born secret' -- The mission -- The British opposites -- FLARE -- The cutout -- LOCUST -- 'Hotbed of spies' -- Framed -- Collaborating with the Nazis -- A dead shot -- Stehli the detective -- 'One minute to midnight' -- Hiroshima -- Atomic spies -- The missing link.
- ISBN
- 9781849046381
- 1849046387
- OCLC
- ocn923350222
- 923350222
- SCSB-1860666
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library