On 6 August – Hiroshima Day – I participated in a groundbreaking event at the South African Museum in Cape Town entitled ‘The Missing Link: Peace and Security Surrounding Uranium'. The event had been organised by the Congolese Civil Society of South Africa (CCSSA) to put a spotlight on the link between Japan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): that the uranium used to build the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Shinkolobwe mine in the province of Katanga. This was the richest uranium in the world, an average of 65 per cent uranium oxide, in comparison with American or Canadian ore, which contained less than one per cent.
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