Canadian PM Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora's Box...

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Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box

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PHOTO: Prime Minister Mackenzie King, with President Franklin D Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill during the Quebec Conference, 18 August 1943

(August 19 was the anniversary of the signing of the historic Quebec Agreement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in Quebec City in 1943 for the joint development of the atom bomb by the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada.)

Anton Wagner, Presenza New York, August 2020

EXCERPT: "Canadians and the world should not forget that it was Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King who opened the atomic Pandora’s box. King literally let the nuclear genie escape from Canadian uranium, with dire consequences threatening the very existence of human civilization.

In June of 1942, Malcolm MacDonald, the British High Commissioner in Canada, informed him about the British atom bomb project, codenamed “Tube Alloys.” The first country to possess a military weapon of this kind would win the war, the Prime Minister was told.

Only a month later, a secret order in Council allocated $75,500,000 in 2020 dollars for the Canadian government to buy sufficient Eldorado stock to take effective control of the company and its uranium mine in Port Radium in the Northwest Territories.

Because of a possible Nazi invasion of England, King also agreed in August that a British scientific team could establish an atomic facility at the University of Montreal to develop a nuclear reactor. The British ordered tons of uranium ore from Eldorado and, at the direction of the Minister of Munitions and Supply, C.D. Howe, obtained heavy water from the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company in Trail, B.C. to moderate a nuclear reaction. . . . "

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