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What role did the need for the element tungsten by the US play in the Korean War?
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As amazing as it may seem some consider the Korean War to have been fought over the then precious and irreplaceable metal tungsten.
No indoor light for homes or factories would be practical at that time making indoor and night production impossible.
Korea had by far the largest known deposits of the element tungsten.
When Buckminster Fuller's group, who was cataloging the world's resources and where they are found, published the fact that the element tungsten was found mainly in Korea, the US government censored those findings for some years, possibly in an effort to hide the weakness inherent in being dependent on that element, and possibly covering its connection to the Korean War.
There is even a video film clip of the then US president Dwight Eisenhower making the statement that "we are fighting to protect the precious resource tungsten"
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