Published July 2005 

In 1945, the year of the tragic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel-laureate physicist James Franck headed a committee of scientists at the University of Chicago that desperately tried to prevent the use of the bomb and also earnestly proposed ways to prevent nuclear weapons from endangering human civilization. The committee stated in its report, that the best way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons would be to prohibit the mining of uranium. "

(Note: This particular paragraph leaped out at me from within this fascinating piece, which I first found on the Friends of the Congo website, http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/ .  I could not agree more with physicist James Franck and thr committee that came to this conclusion.—Annie) 

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