Post by bobloblaw on Oct 22, 2016 11:17:27 GMT -5
by Susan Williams. In 1939 Albert Einstein sent a letter to FDR that the Nazi's were trying to develop an atomic bomb and the world's only supply of uniquely high quality uranium could only be found in a mine in the Belgian Congo. This book tells the story of how the US had to secure the mine and secretly ship the material to the US for use in the Manhattan Project. Two ships were sunk by U-Boats so there is 200 tons of highly radioactive uranium sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. After that the US had to build a landing strip and they flew it out on Pan American flights.