Prospecting
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- Truck used for prospecting oil wells in 1945. Photo courtesy : Mary Scherbatskoy
The Cold War stimulated international competition in the search of innovative ways to prospect natural resources; oil and uranium especially. As prospecting research proved vital to the completion of nuclear programmes, it overlapped diplomatic and intelligence activities in an effort to find out about world reserves and prospecting technologies, especially in “enemy” countries.
