Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92 (between Protactinium 91 and Neptunium 93). It is a radioactive actinide metal, used to extract radium, as fuel in the nuclear power industry and as a weapon in the war industry. It was discovered in 1789 by German Martin Heinrich Klaproth (Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) and named after planet Uranus, discovered 8 years earlier by William Herschel. Its radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel (Nobel Prize with Marie Curie). |
It has a silvery grey metallic appearance. The Habsburgs used uranium ore (pitchblende) from their silver mines to use it in glassmaking.
Niels Bohr postulated a theory of nuclear fission and claimed uranium could be used to make a bomb.
Uranium was was imported from Congo and enriched during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico with Robert Oppenheimer as director. Scientists of Columbia University like Enrico Fermi tried bombarding uranium with neutrons, provided by Leo Szilard.
Henry Stimson (S&B) was Secretary of War. The project was under authority of president Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. Albert Einstein was used in propaganda to scare the US population with the external threat of a German bomb. Adolf Hitler, who played the role of Antichrist/Shadow, threatened with the use of secret weapons in speeches.
Uranium was used in the core of the Little Man bomb (named after homunculus of Paracelsus) dropped on Hiroshima, as climax of the WW1 and WW2 ritual (a sequel of the Thirty Year's War that followed Paracelsus' Endtimes prophecies), on order of 33d degree mason Harry Truman. The bomb represented the philosophical egg.
In 1946 uranium was tested on humans at the University of Rochester.
In 1989 propaganda movie Fat Man and Little Boy was released by Paramount Pictures with Paul Newman, Bonnie Bedelia, Natasha Richardson (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave), John Cusack, Laura Dern and Robert Cornog as advisor.
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