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After the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, Stalin desperately needed uranium for the Soviet Union's nuclear program. He found it in Jáchymov, a small Czech town. What followed was a heartbreaking story of thousands of forced laborers working in deadly conditions, without protection, to mine the uranium that would fuel Stalin's first atomic bomb.
What if Marie Skłodowska Curie's groundbreaking Nobel Prize-winning discovery became the key to one of the Cold War's darkest chapters?
In 1898, Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium in uranium residues from Jáchymov. Her revolutionary research changed science forever. But decades later, that same town would play a haunting role in the nuclear arms race.
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After the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, Stalin desperately needed uranium for the Soviet Union's nuclear program. He found it in Jáchymov, a small Czech town. What followed was a heartbreaking story of thousands of forced laborers working in deadly conditions, without protection, to mine the uranium that would fuel Stalin's first atomic bomb.
What if Marie Skłodowska Curie's groundbreaking Nobel Prize-winning discovery became the key to one of the Cold War's darkest chapters?
In 1898, Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium in uranium residues from Jáchymov. Her revolutionary research changed science forever. But decades later, that same town would play a haunting role in the nuclear arms race.
#dwhistory #DWrussian_history
For more visit: dw.com/en/culture/s-1441
Please follow DW's netiquette: https://p.dw.com/p/MF1G
