Comunicato da IDUST, International Depleted Uranium Study Team

Nota: la wolframite è un minerale da cui si estrae tungsteno, detto anche wolframio dal nome dello scopritore.

Where did it all begin?

Author of the book, Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer, writes, "In the summer of 1943, wolframite imports from Portugal were cut off, which created a critical situation for the production of solid-core ammunition. I there upon ordered the use of uranium cores for this type of ammunition. My release of our uranium stocks of about twelve hundred metric tons showed that we no longer had any thoughts of producing atomic bombs."

Speer, A., Inside the Third Reich, Avon Books, New York, September, 1971: p.304