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Why this town in the Northwest Territories was called the 'Village of Widows'

Nina Dragicevic · CBC Docs · October 25, 2024 - Also on AUDIO LINK

EXCERPT: "The discovery of a rare rock amidst the tundra of Canada's Far North nearly 100 years ago set in motion one of mankind's most destructive legacies: Decades of mining, workers getting sick and, finally, a pair of atomic bombs that killed tens of thousands of civilians in an instant — and changed the world forever.

As author and professor Peter van Wyck says in the documentary Atomic Reaction: "This is a piece of Canadian history that doesn't get talked about much." . . . "

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WATCH: "Atomic Reaction"

- 89 Minutes - CBC GEM - dives into Canada’s significant role in the Manhattan Project and the fallout seventy-five years later.

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How Canada supplied uranium for the Manhattan Project

Peter C. van Wyck · January 10, 2025 - CBC News - (LISTEN)

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. . . . ."

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