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Author: Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572337855 Category : Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Languages : en Pages : 280
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created by the U.S. government during World War II to aid in the construction of the first atomic bomb. Drawing on oral history and previously classified material, this book portrays the patterns of daily life in this unique setting.
Author: Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572337855 Category : Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Languages : en Pages : 280
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created by the U.S. government during World War II to aid in the construction of the first atomic bomb. Drawing on oral history and previously classified material, this book portrays the patterns of daily life in this unique setting.
Author: Ed Westcott Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738541709 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 70
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Oak Ridge is nestled in the foothills of East Tennessee, 25 miles west of Knoxville. Bordered on three sides by the Clinch River, the land first existed under other names--Elza, Robertsville, Scarboro, and Wheat--and became part of the Clinton Engineering Works later known as Oak Ridge. In 1942, 59,000 acres of land were transformed in a matter of weeks into a "secret city" that became known as the mysterious Manhattan District. As a direct result of the letter written by Albert Einstein to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, the Manhattan District was created to develop new atomic weapons. Finally named Oak Ridge in 1943 and now thriving with a population of over 27,000, the town continues to be a significant center for the advancement of science and technology used throughout the world. In this pictorial history, photographs and personal descriptions guide readers on a visual journey of the construction of a city and the creation of the atomic bomb, to the post-war transformation of Oak Ridge into a major scientific community in the South.
Author: Denise Kiernan Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451617534 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Author: Lindsey A. Freeman Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469622386 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping "the war effort." The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as "The Atomic City," to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge's story deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between America and its bombs. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America's atomic past and to explain the nuclear present.
Author: Leland Johnson Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9780870498541 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Leland Johnson and Daniel Schaffer begin their narrative in 1943 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built ORNL in the hills of East Tennessee to produce plutonium for atomic weapons. After World War II, ORNL became a center for fundamental scientific research under the successive management of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Department of Energy.
Author: Russell B. Olwell Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572333246 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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Founded during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military's atomic bomb assembly line-the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. At Work in the Atomic City explores the world of those workers and their efforts to form unions, create a community, and gain political rights over their city.
Author: Mansfield Publisher: ISBN: 9780986255700 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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At the turn of the 20th century a simple farmer in rural East Tennessee experienced a tragedy through which his life became radically transformed. After forty nights in the woods he announced to his community that he had received visions about the future. Those who knew him couldn't even remotely understand the magnitude of what he was trying to say using the primitive language common in that day. Yet the fulfillment of those visions came to be called "the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century."
Author: Dan Zak Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 1626810931 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 79
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In the summer of 2012, in the dead of night, three peace activists- a drifter, an 82-year-old nun, and a house painter- penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. What if they had been terrorists armed with explosives, intent on mass destruction? That nightmare scenario underlies the government’s response to the intrusion. THE PROPHETS OF OAK RIDGE is the story of two competing worldviews, of conscience vs. court, of fantasy vs. reality, of history vs. the future.
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