Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Chinhu chinokosha chakagadzirwa nokuda kwepurogiramu yacho chakanga chiri uranium, iyo yaishandiswa sechinhu chinotungidza zvigadziriro zvinogadzira magetsi, sezvokudya izvo zvakashandurwa kuva plutonium, uye, muchimiro chayo chakapfumiswa, mubhomba reatomu rimene. Pakanga pane matura makuru mana anozivikanwa euranium muna 1940: muColorado, kuchamhembe kweCanada, muJoachimsthal muCzechoslovakia, uye muBelgian Congo. Vose kunze kwaJoachimstal vakanga vari mumaoko evamwe. Nzvero yaNovember 1942 yakaratidza kuti uwandu hwakakwana hweuranium hwakanga huripo kugutsa zvinodikanwa zvebasa racho. Nichols akaronga neDhipatimendi reHurumende kuti kutengesa kunze kwenyika kuiswe pauranium oxide uye vakataurirana kuti vatenge matani 1,200 mapfupi (1,100 t) euranium ore kubva kuBelgian Congo iyo yaichengetwa mune imwe imba yekuchengetera kuStaten Island uye masheya akasara e ore yakachengetwa muCongo. Akataurirana neEldorado Gold Mines nezvokutenga chicherwa chayo chaibva kunzvimbo yayo yokunatsa mafuta muPort Hope, kuOntario, uye chokuitakura muzvikamu zvematani 100. Hurumende yeCanada yakazotenga masheya ekambani yacho kusvikira yawana mugove wokudzora. Nepo kutenga uku kwakavimbisa kugovera kwakakwana kuzosangana nezvinodiwa zvehondo, vatungamiriri veAmerica neBritain vakagumisa kuti kwaiva kufariro yenyika dzavo kuwana udzori hwezvakawanda sezvinobvira zvemigove yeuranium yenyika. Tsime rakapfuma zvikurusa rezvinonhuwira rakanga riri mugodhi weShinkolobwe muBelgian Congo, asi wakafashamiswa ndokuvharwa. Nichols akaedza pasina kubudirira kutaurirana kuvhurwa kwayo uye kutengeswa kwezvose zvaizobuda mune ramangwana kuUnited States naEdgar Sengier, mutungamiri wekambani yaiva nemugodhi, Union Minière du Haut Katanga. Nhau yacho yakabva yatorwa neCombined Policy Committee. Sezvo 30 muzana yemasheya eUnion Minière yaidzorwa nezvido zveBritain, vaBritain vakatungamirira mukurukurirano. Sir John Anderson naAmbassador John Winant vakaita chibvumirano naSengier nehurumende yeBelgium muna May 1944 kuti mugodhi wacho uvhurwezve uye matani mapfupi 1.720 (1,560 t) ezvicherwa zvaizotengwa pamadhora 1.45 paundi. Kudzivisa kutsamira pa...  Mubvunzo: Gore ripi rakaona kugadzirwa kukuru kweoxide yakachena kuchisvika pamwero mukuru?
Muna 1942