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The atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War were made out of uranium extracted from the former Belgian Congo. In her new book called "Spies in the Congo, The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb", author Susan Williams sheds new light on America's efforts to keep the Congolese ore away from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. (Author Susan Williams on the left, credit: Â鶹Éç, and an atomic cloud billows, following the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in Hiroshima, Japan, credit: Reuters/U.S. Army/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)