The colony provided the uranium used to build the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But after the Second World War, during the Cold War, uranium supplied by Union Minière also played a major role. Draft of a note of Pierre Ryckmans to King Leopold III about the prospection and exploitation of uranium in Belgian Congo, [second half of the 20th century, before 1959].
NAB, Archives Pierre Ryckmans, no. 80/7.
NAB, Archives Pierre Ryckmans, no. 80/7.
