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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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Uranium's Use Before the Second World War
Uranium's use before the Second World War was basically as a glazing agent for pottery, all that famous yellow pottery and orange pottery that people owned in the 1930s. Those colors came from uranium, and they're sufficiently radioactive even to this day if you wave a Geiger-Konra or you get some plaques. We tried both before the war and the general groves who had the mistaken impression that there was a limited amount of high grade uranium ore in the world. That didn't work. So once it became clear that there was another use for uranium, a much more important one, Gross tied to corn to the world market and he thought he had
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