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Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium pp 229–252Cite as

Cold War Uranium Blunders

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On 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill, speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, noted that in Europe: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” During the ensuing 45 years, an economic and military competition along with mutual antagonism and distrust persisted between the North Atlantic democracies and the Communist totalitarian regimes of the Warsaw Pact: the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the German Democratic Republic . By 1990–1991, the Communist regimes were no longer economically sustainable and they collapsed. As World War III was avoided, this era was deemed the “Cold War.”

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Robison, R. (2015). Cold War Uranium Blunders. In: Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11830-7_10

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