Rainer Karlsch & Zbynek Zeman 
Uranium Matters [PDF ebook] 
Central European Uranium in International Politics, 19001960

Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies, particularly in the decade or so after the end of the Second World War. The Erzgebirge — the Ore Mountains — on the border of Czechoslovakia and East Germany of the time, was the oldest uranium mine in the world, whose important resources were badly needed for Stalin’s atomic bomb.