Harry Truman actually said...

The term 'fissionable materials' as used in this order means (a) all deposits from which the substances known as thorium, uranium (including uranium enriched as to one of its isotopes), and elements higher than uranium in the periodic table, can be refined or produced...

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Executive Order 9701—Providing for the Reservation of Rights to Fissionable Materials in Lands Owned By the United States

03/03/1946

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