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 […]
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 […]
Long after the Cold War had ended, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) found themselves continually litigating occupational illness claims. The Department (DOE) had always been held harmless for any correlation between the jobs they provided and the illnesses that were occurring among their staff and former workers. Over time, however, our government grew […]
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