History in Five: The Manhattan Project’s Secret City
Learn more about Girls of Atomic City at The top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, became the center of the government's research to build an atomic bomb. Author Denise Kiernan, reveals the 5 things you should know about THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY.
A Rare Look at the Secret Site of the Atomic Bomb
In 1942, one thousand families were pushed out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of The Manhattan Project - the US government's top secret initiative to engineer an atomic bomb.
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Oak Ridge is now officially part of a national park.
The new Manhattan Project National Historical Park also includes spots in Washington and New Mexico.
All places that helped develop the world’s first atomic bomb.
Bus tours of the national lab are available, and artifacts are being put on display.
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park commemorating the Manhattan Project that is run jointly by the National Park Service and Department of Energy.The park consists of three units: one in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one in Los Alamos, New Mexico and one in Hanford, Washington.It was established on November 10, 2015 when Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz signed the memorandum of agreement that defined the roles that the two agencies had when managing the park.The Department of Energy had owned and managed most of the properties located within the three different sites.
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park commemorating the Manhattan Project that is run jointly by the National Park Service and Department of Energy. The park consists of three units: one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one in Los Alamos, New Mexico and one in Hanford, Washington. It was established on November 10, 2015 when Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz signed the memorandum of agreement that defined the roles that the two agencies had when managing the park.The Department of Energy had owned and managed most of the properties located within the three different sites. For over ten years, the DoE worked with the National Park Service and federal, state and local governments and agencies with the intention of turning places of importance into a National Historical Park. After several years of surveying the three sites and five other possible alternatives, the two agencies officially recommended a historical park be established in Hanford, Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. The Department of Energy would continue to manage and own the sites while the National Park Service would provide interpretive services, visitor centers and park rangers. After two unsuccessful attempts at passing a bill in Congress authorizing the park in 2012 and 2013, the House and Senate ultimately passed the bill in December 2014, with President Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act shortly thereafter which authorized the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
Manhattan Project Symposium: Senator Martin Heinrich's Remarks
Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico speaks about the significance of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Los Alamos, NM, Hanford, WA, and Oak Ridge, TN.
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Hiking in the SECRET CITY (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
Jerry and I celebrated our valentines with some hiking in Oak Ridge. Also known as the Secret City or the Atomic City where nuclear testing was done. We found a couple of historic cemeteries and a beautiful quarry to lunch at. For this trip, we hiked around 6 miles.
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Oak Ridge: 75 Years of the Secret City (Part 1)
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Oak Ridge Three Bends Historical and Recreational Treasures
A look at the historical buildings, fields and scenery of the splendid region called Three Bends in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This Department of Energy preservation is managed for wildlife preservation by TWRA and for environmental Research by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is under consideration for inclusion as a partnership with NPS as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park
New Mexico: Los Alamos
Los Alamos (Spanish meaning The Cottonwoods or The Poplars) is a town New Mexico that is recognized as the birthplace of the atomic bomb––the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
The town is located on four mesas of the Pajarito Plateau, and has a population of 12,019.
The first settlers on the plateau are thought to be Keres speaking Native Americans around the 10th century. Around 1300, Tewa settlers immigrated from the Four Corners Region and built large cities but were driven out within 50 years by Navajo and Apache raids and by drought. Both the Keres and Tewa towns can be seen today in the ruins of Bandelier National Monument and Tsankawi.
The land of the plateau was then divided up for homesteading. Most residents of the plateau built simple log cabins that they only lived in during warm weather to feed livestock, with the homesteaders moving down to the warmer Rio Grande Valley. Homesteader Harold H. Brook sold part of his land and buildings to Detroit businessman Ashley Pond II in 1917 which began the Los Alamos Ranch School, named after the aspen trees that blossomed in the spring.
In 1942, during World War II, the Department of War began looking for a remote location for the Manhattan Project. The school was closed when the government used its power of eminent domain to take over the Ranch School and all the remaining homestead that same year. The Ranch School was paid $225 per acre; the homesteaders were paid between $7 and $15 per acre. All information about the town was highly classified until the bombing of Hiroshima.
All incoming truckloads were labeled as common items to conceal the true nature of their contents, and any outbound correspondence by those working and living in Los Alamos was censored by military officials. At the time, it was referred to as The Hill by many in Santa Fe, and as Site Y by military personnel. The mailing address for all of Los Alamos was PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM. After the Manhattan Project was completed, White Rock was abandoned until 1963 when people began to re-inhabit and rebuild new homes and buildings.
On November 10, 2015, the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the establishment of Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos, along with units in Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The median household income in Los Alamos is $98,458, and per capita income is $54,067. Income is significantly higher than the rest of New Mexico. Los Alamos has the highest millionaire concentration of any US city with 12.4 percent of households having at least $1 million in assets. Only 6.6% of people are below the poverty line, half the rate of the United States, and one-third the rate of New Mexico. As of January 2015, there were zero homeless individuals.
Manhattan Project Symposium: Patrick Gregerson and Jaime Shimek
Patrick Gregerson, Chief of Planning at the National Park Service, and Jaime Shimek, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Senate Affairs at the Department of Energy, discuss implementing the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Los Alamos, NM, Hanford, WA, and Oak Ridge, TN.
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Day 27 Inside Look at Manhattan Project Reactor Tour B and Polluse Falls USA Road Trip Part 2 5
Today we go inside the Reactor B of the Manhattan Project. This is one of 3 locations across the country where nuclear bombs we being created, tested or assembled. It was previously owned by the department of energy but is newly been transferred to the National Parks Services. The tour if free and 4 hours long. They explain everything from how bombs were made, the daily lives of workers and more.
All of this information was top secret and confidential just 5 years ago and now they share this information publicly. One day in the next couple years they hope to make this a completely self guided open to the public national park.
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Janine Anderson died four days after launching hers and other sick-nuclear fuel plant workers campaign on April 28, 2009 for a National Day of Remembrance of those still ill from contaminants and those who passed on. She worked at the nuclear fuel gas diffusion K-25 plant in Oak Ridge TN. She was among several sickened workers I've interviewed in the past year - to view their stories and events, visit theexposed.net - This is a draft video © 2009 Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing
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1. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is no secret now, but when it was founded in 1942, the entire town was kept under wraps. That’s because the city was formed for workers on the Manhattan Project, the secret military operation that resulted in the first nuclear weapons. Residents were fenced in, with guards stationed at every exit. The project was so cloaked in secrecy that many employees had no idea what they were working on until the bombs were dropped.
2. The state was once home to Tanasi, the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1721 to 1730. The capital was eventually absorbed by the town of Chota, which then became the capital instead. The official site is now underwater, but a marker erected in 1989 pays homage to what once was. You can find it in McGee Carson Peninsula State Historic Park. And yes—the state may have been named after this village.
3. It may come as no surprise that Tennessee is the birthplace of country music, but the genre's specific home isn't the town you think it is. In 1927, music producer Ralph Peer recorded more than 76 songs in downtown Bristol, Tennessee, in just 10 days, bringing in performers from around the Appalachian Mountain area. This included the Carter family, later declared the First Family of Country Music. Congress officially proclaimed Bristol the “Birthplace of Country Music” in 1998.
4. Mountain Dew was invented there. The popular neon soft drink was originally developed by brothers Ally and Barney Hartman as a mixer, something to cut the acrid taste of homemade moonshine. Pepsi bought the Hartman brothers' lemon-lime concoction in 1964.
5. Another concoction from Chattanooga: The MoonPie. Legend has it that the marshmallowy treat was invented in 1917 after the owner of the Chattanooga Bakery asked a coal miner what kind of snack he’d like to pack in his lunchbox. Something with graham cracker, chocolate, and marshmallow, the miner said. Then the baker wondered how big the pastry should be. The miner held his hands up to the sky and framed the moon.
6. The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist from Nashville. Perhaps trying to generate more cavities to fill, dentist William Morrison and candymaker John C. Wharton co-created the cotton candy machine in 1897. They debuted their device at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where it was an immediate hit: They sold 68,655 boxes for 25 cents each.
7. Memphis is home to one of the five most-visited private homes in the United States. Elvis Presley’s former home, Graceland, hosts more than 500,000 visitors annually. Tourism varies by year, but Graceland is usually second only to the White House. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The site is now a National Civil Rights Museum. Among the exhibits is the hotel’s original room 306, where King was staying when he was assassinated.
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Jose - preparations: Despite modest beginnings in 1939 the Manhattan project grew to employ over 130,000 and cost more than $2 billion U.S. dollars at the time. Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and producing the fissile materials, with less than 10% actually used for the development and production of the nuclear weapons. Research and production took place at more than 30 sites across the United States, the United Kingdoms, and Canada, however the two largest and arguably most important were Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oak Ridge, which took up 56,000 acres of land acquired by eminent domain at a cost of $3.5 million was the headquarters and major developer of the weapons grade uranium that powered not only the initial nuclear weapons tests, but also both the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. While Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site of project Y, was where the first of the nuclear weapons used, including the ones used on Japan, were made. It took up 54,000 acres of land which costed about $440,000 at the time and all but 8,900 of those acres were already owned by the federal government. The secretary of agriculture at the time, Claud R. Wickard granted use of some 40,000 acres of the United States’s forest service land for War Department for so long as the military necessity continues.
Marcel - technology: The main tribulation in creating the atomic bomb had to do with development of nuclear fission. Engineers were able to use chemical processes to create enough uranium and plutonium in order to create a chain reaction strong enough to be effective. The majority of this work was done in Oak Ridge Tennessee. The engineers were able to use both Uranium and Plutonium in both the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb respectively. These bombs were equivalent to around 18 kilotons of TNT each. When they were dropped, they were very destructive. Whether or not you agree with the use of these bombs, the science behind them was way beyond their time, and the technology marked a new era in weaponry that shaped future wars.
Mercedes - production: Over 90% of the cost of the Manhattan Project was used to build factories and producing the fissile materials. Less than 10% was used for the true development and production of the weapons. These Manhattan properties were one-of-a-kind facilities and devices that used some of the century's most unprecedented and profound technologies. The Manhattan Project produced three bombs. the first bomb was Gadget and was used as a test model. Due to the high expense and slow creation rates for explosive material, no further tests were conducted. The second bomb, known as Little Boy was set off in Hiroshima, and the last bomb was called Fat Man and was used in the city of Nagasaki.
Bianca - Hiroshima & Nagasaki: After president Truman learned of the success of the Manhattan Project he was faced with the most difficult decision of his life. Yet before he would decide to use the atomic bombs to end the 4 year long and weary war (WW2) with Japan he made an allied demand for an immediate surrender, but the Japanese command rejected. The decision was made, on August 6,1945 the plane Enola Gay dropped a uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 70,000 citizens were instantly vaporized and in the years that followed an additional 100,000 perished from radiation contamination. Just two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and on August 9th the second bombing with a plutonium atomic bomb carried by the plane Bockscar was dropped on Nagasaki pulverizing 80,000 Japanese people. On august 14, 1945 the Japanese surrendered. Since then the United States remains the ONLY nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon on another nation.
Kervin - Cold War: The Cold War was a struggle between two superpowers: the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It occurred right after World War II from 1945 to 1991. The two nations had two different ideals about economics and government. Although they did not actually engage in actual battle, they fought indirectly in proxy wars, the Arms Race, and the Space Race. Both sides competed for advancement in space travel and nuclear weapons. The Cold War began to end in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and then came to a complete end in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.