How Canada supplied uranium for the Manhattan Project

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How Canada supplied uranium for the Manhattan Project

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Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that . . .

CBC DOCUMENTARIES - Peter C. van Wyck · January 10, 2025

EXCERPT: "In the past couple of years, the public imagination has been taken up with all things nuclear — the bomb, energy and waste. The film Oppenheimer recasts the story of the bomb as a Promethean and largely American narrative, while the series Fallout depicts a post-nuclear world. Russia has repeatedly emphasized its readiness for nuclear conflict. Nuclear energy has been regaining popularity as a hedge against climate change.

And yet, the story of Canada's nuclear legacy — and our connection to the bombs that the U.S. military dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands in an instant — is rarely told.

The documentary Atomic Reaction examines the impact of the radioactive materials mined in a Dene community in the Northwest Territories in the 1930s and '40s. That radioactive ore was transported thousands of kilometres south, via Canada's "Atomic Highway," to be refined in Port Hope, Ont. And the uranium was used in the Manhattan Project, which developed those atomic bombs. . . . ."