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Essay Archive - Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
On Monday August 6, 1945 the U.S. Bomber Enola Gay flew over the
Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seconds later a metallic projectile fell
towards its target. In a blinding flash the world felt the power of a new
age, the nuclear age.
The study of radiation that would eventually lead to these uranium
weapons began in 1798. It was in this year that the german chemist Martin
Heinrich Klaproth identified the element uranium. Uranium was not isolated
in a metallic state until 1841. The radioactive properties of uranium were
first discovered in 1896 when a French physicist Antoine Hen....
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