The city of Oak Ridge was established by the US government in 1942 to serve as a home base to the Manhattan Project. Chosen for its remote locale, the entire city had to be built almost from scratch to handle the influx of employee/residents, which ballooned form 3,000 to 75,000 within 3 years. Very few […]
MCDANIEL: This is Keith McDaniel, and today is June the 4th, 2017, and I am at my studio here in Oak Ridge with Mr. Benny Houser. Mr. Houser, thank you for coming by and talking with us. HOUSER: Thank you very much for the invitation. I appreciate that. MCDANIEL: Sure. Well, let’s start at the […]
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 built and how far it extended. He smiled obligingly, hesitated and finally said: “Suppose it’s perfectly all right to tell […]
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