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Oak Ridge Manhattan Project

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Julie Bates
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Throw It Back
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Behind the Bomb
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Manhattan Project History
Rogersville Tennessee
Oak Ridge Tennessee
Age Spots On Face
Retro Signage
Scott County
Greatest Generation
Spots On Legs
Vintage Stores
Off the Beaten Path: Oak Ridge TN
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Trinity Test
Robert Oppenheimer
New Mexico History
Manhattan Project
The Secret World
Nuclear Power Plant
Atomic Age
The Secret City
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East Tennessee
Southern Style
Flats Top
Fine Art Print
Wall Art Home
Art Home Decor
Art Home
Oak Ridge Flat Top by Paul Mashburn
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Historic Places
Nuclear Power
Hiroshima
Atom
Manhattan
History
Oak Ridge, TN - Atomic Heritage Foundation Wiki Barracks at Oak Ridge
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Us Government
Us History
Top Secret
Beautiful Lakes
Historical Events
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Secret Government
Project Blue Book
Rare Historical Photos
Fukushima
Nagasaki
Interesting History
The Secret City
This 1945 photograph shows the giant 44 acre K-25 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the uranium for the first atomic weapon was produced.
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Hoosier National Forest Indiana
1970s Rural America
Haunted Oklahoma
Mountain Town
Knoxville Tn
Life Facts
TDorminy
Interesting - Photostream of WWII Cemesto "Alphabet Houses" by type in Oak Ridge
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Prison Tower
Guard Tower
Abandoned Prisons
Military Bunkers
Kids Forts
Old Abandoned Buildings
Prison Life
Lookout Tower
Profiles
Guard Tower at Oak Ridge - 1945
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Eastern Michigan University
Rocky Top
Job Security
Discussion Topics
Oral History
Appalachian Mountains
Book about the labor and social history of Oak Ridge, TN called At Work In the Atomic City
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Rare historical photos
Tennessee
Atomic age
Historical events
The secret world
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Brave Women
The Borrowers
Y-12 Plant
Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, 1944 Nuclear Technology, Civil Defense, Back In The Day
Nuclear Technology
Civil Defense
Back In The Day
Manhattan Project: Oak Ridge and Hanford Come Through, 1944-1945
Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, 1944
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Virtual Museum
Historical Architecture
Parking Lot
Aerial View
Travel Around
Bend
History Talk at Historic Freels Cabin – Freels Bend - Explore Oak Ridge
Aerial View of Oak Ridge's Y-12 Plant
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Franklin Roosevelt
Control Room
Army Corps Of Engineers
Control Panels
The Women’s History Hidden in America’s Nuclear Past
(Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images) The Women's History Hidden in America's Nuclear Past: Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during World War II. 1944. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the Manhattan Project effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, with no idea to what end their labors were directed.