Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2024

Posted: 24th June 2024

At least six million have died in an ongoing genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it is rarely in the news. The bloodshed has deep, colonial roots, and threads of uranium yellowcake run through the story from the Manhattan Project until today.

Expendable in the Congo

A quiet but bloody genocide continues in the Congo, where gold, cobalt and uranium are among the minerals in contention for control by numerous warring factions. Congo’s uranium history reads like a cloak-and-dagger spy saga, which in fact it was, from the Manhattan Project to Patrice Lumumba’a assassination to the supplying of uranium for Israel’s nuclear weapons program, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. READ MORE

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