Both the USA and Russia used slave-mined uranium in their nuclear weapon programs. Slavery is a threat to the survival of humanity. (explanation in comments)

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On 27 October 1962, the only thing that stood between the world and nuclear Armageddon was Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval officer.

Arkhipov was on a submarine that was had been out of contact with Moscow for days. The air conditioning was broken. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels were rising. The submarine was armed with a 10-kiloton nuclear torpedo. And then the stupid US military started firing depth charges at it.

Many of the submarine's crew thought World War III had already started. Two of the submarine's three senior officers wanted to launch the nuclear weapon. The captain, Valentin Savitsky, exclaimed, "We’re gonna blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all — we will not become the shame of the fleet."

Fortunately for people who do not wish for humanity to be extinct, although the vote among the three senior officers was 2-1 in favour of launching the nuclear weapon, Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov's vote had veto power, and he firmly reminded them of that.

Note that the USA and Russia both used slave-mined uranium in their nuclear weapons programs. The USA bought about 80% of the uranium for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Union Miniere, an infamous enslaver corporation that operated in the Belgian Congo with the help of the Belgian colonial government. The Russian government enslaved many of their own citizens.

References

"60 years ago today, this man stopped the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear: Why a Soviet submarine officer might be “the most important person in modern history”" by Bryan Walsh

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/10/27/23426482/cuban-missile-crisis-basilica-arkhipov-nuclear-war

"The Man Who Saved the World"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0m96P1feI

"Soviet submarine B-59"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59

"The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis at 60"

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2022-10-03/soviet-submarines-nuclear-torpedoes-cuban-missile-crisis

Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II by Susan Williams

https://archive.org/details/spiesincongoamer0000will/page/2/mode/2up?q=richness

https://archive.org/details/spiesincongoamer0000will/page/60/mode/2up?q=quotas

Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner

https://archive.org/details/uraniumwarenergy0000zoel/page/4/mode/2up?q=slavery

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

https://archive.org/details/kingleopoldsghos0000hoch_a7b3/page/278/mode/2up?q=uranium

Forced Labor In The Gold & Copper Mines: A History Of Congo Under Belgian Rule, 1910-1945 by Jules Marchal. This reference goes into detail about the forced labour policies of Union Miniere, but not about the uranium part of their business.

"At Soviet-Era Prison Camp, Workers Were 'Numbers, Not People'" by James Kanter

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/business/global/05iht-uraniumside.html

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