Silver Crucial For WWII Bomb
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 18:42
in Mathematics & Economics
In the middle of World War II, Secretary of War Henry Stimson asked Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau if he could borrow some of the government's silver on repository in West Point, N.Y. With metal in high demand for weaponry, silver was needed for a top-secret project. In this case it was silver's electrical properties, not its monetary value which made it important. The secret project was being carried out at several undisclosed locations and required immense resources.