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 What Was on the Menu ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, helped birth the Atomic Age. Now it wants to be the center of a nuclear energy revival. OAK RIDGE, Tennessee — Nestled amid the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, this ...

Eighteen miles west of Knoxville lies the town of Oak Ridge, birthplace of the atomic bomb. We drove over a recently constructed road and I asked the driver, a young private, when the road was ...

Learn more about the ORNL Traveling Science Fair on its website. Partners for Atomic Expo include ORNL, Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the American Museum of ...

Partners for Atomic Expo include ORNL, Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the American Museum of Science and Energy, Muse Knoxville, the Oak Ridge Chamber of ...

Partners for Atomic Expo include ORNL, Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the American Museum of Science and Energy, Muse Knoxville, the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, ...

The women of the 6888th would wear their coats and boots in the warehouses to protect themselves from the cold, rotting food ...

U.S. Department of Energy / Public Domain Once it became clear that the enormous energy contained in the atomic nucleus could be used to build a bomb—and ... separation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

As "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed biopic about the physicist behind the atomic bomb, prepares to win big at the Oscars March 10, Oak Ridge is marking a significant moment ...

Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley deserves credit for not letting history forget that Lorainites contributed to the atomic bomb which ended ... government project at the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant.

“He joined the Oak Ridge Atomic Plant there ... Wargo later learned that he was working to build the atomic bomb. She said she has the certificate signed by President Harry S.

Anti-nuclear weapons activism in Oak Ridge has always focused on the Y-12 National Security Complex, the nation's storehouse of bomb-grade uranium ... to ward off the atomic aspirations of ...