Combined Development Agency

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The Combined Development Agency (CDA) was an organization founded in 1948 by the US and UK governments . This organization should procure and secure the supply of sufficient uranium to pursue its plans to build an atomic bomb . As part of this task, the CDA also concluded contracts for the delivery of heavy water (e.g. with the Netherlands and India). Another treaty was signed with Belgium, the colonial power in the Congo at the time, on the uranium deposits there.

In the USA in 1942 all development work for the construction of nuclear weapons was combined in the Manhattan Project and when the construction of atomic bombs succeeded in 1945, they were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Uranium was needed for the further development and construction of nuclear weapons. At that time, uranium deposits were known in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia. The CDA succeeded in handling the necessary procurements and concluded "pure uranium supply contracts" with South Africa in 1951 and with Australia in 1953. Further bilateral agreements on nuclear policy content, aid and support existed from the 1940s.

In Australia , the Port Pirie Uranium Treatment Complex was built in Port Pirie for the production of uranium. The CDA had signed a license agreement with the government of South Australia for the operation of this plant from 1955 and 1962, which was concluded in 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Radetzki: Uranium: A Strategic Source of Energy. Croom Helm, London 1960. ISBN 9780709903406 Online on Googlebooks , accessed February 22, 2011
  2. ^ A b Hans-Hilger Haunschild (1960): Agreement, bilaterals. In: Hans-Jürgen Schlochauer : Dictionary of international law. Vol. 1. p. 98. ISBN 3110010305 . Online on Googlebooks , accessed February 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Gerhard Th. Mollin: The USA and colonialism: America as a partner and successor to Belgian power in Africa (1930-1965), p. 255, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3050027355 Online on Googlebooks , accessed on February 22, 2011
  4. ↑ sea-us.org.au ( Memento of May 8, 1999 in the Internet Archive ), Port Pirie Uranium Treatment Complex, accessed on February 22, 2011