FORTY
FORTY POUNDS WHEN THEY DROPPED THE BOMB AND WERE4@ SAD
ABOUT THE CREATION OF4@
THE SECRET CITY. IT'S A PLACE
WITH A STORIED PAST MANY HAVE
HEARD ABOUT4@ THE FUSE
EXPERIENCED4@ FIRSTHAND
EXPERIENCED4@ FIRSTHAND THE EXCITEMENT GOING
SOMEPLACE AND IN NO WAY OUT
WAS CALLING AS THE MANHATTAN
PROJECT IS TO REACH THOUSANDS
OF TENNESSEANS MOVED AS I
WANTED TO DO ANYTHING THEY
COULD TO STOP THAT TOO IN4@
THE UNDERWATER THEIR STORIES
AND HOW THAT MYSTERIOUS
RESEARCH CHANGE THE WORLD
SHAPED EAST TENNESSEE4@ STORY
ABOUT HER IT IS REALLY A
STORY OF AMERICAN SCIENCE AND
WHAT THREE G IS4@ DOING NOW TO
MOVE INTO THE FUTURE THAT IS
PROBABLY NOT A SINGLE PERSON4@
ANYWHERE ON4@ THIS GROUP AND
THAT IS NOT IMPACTED BY CHRIS4@
NATIONAL LABORATORY. THIS IS
RIDGE NATIONAL LAB. IT'S
SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD AND
STILL A MYSTERY TO SO MANY
PEOPLE IN EAST TENNESSEE
TONIGHT WE TAKE YOU INSIDE
THE LAB AND BACK IN TIME TO
SEVENTY FIVE4@4@ YEARS AGO THAT
THE STORY OF HOW AMERICA DID
SOMETHING THAT NO ONE ELSE IN
THE WAR COULD4@ DO BY BRINGING
TOGETHER THE SCIENTIFIC
COMMUNITY4@ ACADEMIA INDUSTRY
AND4@ MILITARY AND GOVERNMEN4@T
TO HARNESS THE ATOM THE YEAR
WAS NINETEEN FORTY4@ TWO4@ THE
TO HARNESS THE ATOM THE YEAR WAS NINETEEN FORTY4@ TWO4@ THEH
WORLD WAS AT4@4@ US AS ON
THE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAD
RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ALBERT
EINSTEIN WARNING HIM OF
GERMANY'S RESEARCH INTO
ATOMIC WARFARE SAID THE U S
GOVERNMENT WAS LOOKING FOR4@
LOCATION HOUSING TOP SECRET
MISSION. THE MANHATTAN
PROJECT LAST THING4@ ANYONE
WANTED WAS FOR GERMANY TO
FIGURE OUT HOW TO HARNESS4@
THE ATOM FIRST THE WITH SOME
HELP FROM TENNESSEE SENATOR
KENNETH P KELLER4@ THE SECRET
CITY LANDED HERE IN EAST
TENNESSEE OAK RIDGE4@ WASN'T4@
EVEN ON A MAP. PEOPLE DIDN'T
KNOW WORLD WHICH WAS AGES AGO
TO NOT4@ FALL AND I STI4@LL THY
SAID WERE MOVING AND I ASKED
HIM WHERE I SAID WELL I CAN
TELL YOU WHERE WE'RE GOING
BUT I SAID AM GOING WIT4@H YOU
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS POURED
IN TO EAST TENNESSEE EAGER TO
HELP WITH THE WAR EFFORT THAT4@
WAS THE MENTALITY THAT WE
WANT TO HELP WIN T4@HE WAR SO
EVERYONE WAS LOOKING FOR WHAT
THEY CAN TO THE MANHATTAN
4@ PROJECT BROUGHT T4@HOUSANDS F
PEOPLE TO OAK RIDGE IN JUST A
FEW YEARS4@ THAT RAPID GROWTH
HAS ITS DOWNSIDE. THIS WAS A
WORLD AND THERE WAS NOTHING
WHEN I4@ CAME YOU KNOW END SO I
WOULDN'T STEP IN THAT4@ LETS IN
THE CAB DRIVER CARRIED ME
INSIDE THE MIND WAS FROM
THE RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF
HOMES COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
AND OFFICES ALL TO SUPPORT
THE WAR EFFORT HIRED TO4@
DOCUMENT THE TOWN'S DRAMATIC4@
TRANSFORMATION AT WESTCOTT
THEY WANTED SOMEONE HERE TO
TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WHAT TELL
YOU IT'S GONNA BE A VERY
HISTORIC OPERATION AND HE HAD
PLENTY OF CHANGES4@ TO DOCUMENT
IN NINETEEN FORTY TO ABOUT
THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE LIVED
IN THIS AREA THAT WOULD
BECOME VOGUE RIDGE THEY LIVED
SPREAD ACROSS ABOUT HALF A
DOZEN COMMUNITIES BUT
THE GOVERNMENT CAME IN AND4@
TOLD THEM TO GET OUT AND THEY
LEFT EVERYTHING BEHIND
THE NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
IS ONE O4@F THE FEW BUILDINGS
STILL STANDING4@ MANY OF THEM
H4@AVE ELMO BLUE FADE IN OUT
TROOPS TO MOVE THEIR
BELONGINGS WHAT THEY DID HAVE
A YOUNG ME AND4@ THE MILITARY
GET ANKIEL SO THEY GOT OFF
THEIR PROPERTY. MANY OF THEM
IN A MATTER OF DAYS MAKE ROOM
FOR4@ THE MANHATTAN PROJECT FOR
SOME PEOPLE IT4@ WASN'T
THE FIRST MOVE. SOME HAD
ALREADY BEEN RELOCATED FIRST
FOR THE CREATION OF THE GREAT
SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
IN NINETEEN THIRTY FOUR THEN
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF DOOR
SEDAN IN NINETEEN THIRTY SIX
DON'T YOU KNOW4@ THEY THOUGHT
THE G4@OVERNMENT DISCOVERED
ALONG EVERY TEN YEARS A NIGHT
TO MOVE4@ THE ONCE CONSTRUCTION
BEGAN IT WAS A RACE TO FIGURE
OUT THE BEST WAY TO HARNESS
THE ACT ALL THE SCIENCE WAS
NEW WAS HAPPE4@NING IN REAL
TIME THE SCIENTISTS WERE
DEBATING AMONG THEMSELVES
WHETHER THIS4@ WOULD EVEN WORK
IN OAK RIDGE SCIENTISTS
WORKING NONSTOP AND THREE
CENTS4@ A TWENTY FIVE WHITE
TWELVE X TEN THIS WAS
THE CENTER OF ACTIVITY IN
THE NINETEEN FORTIES4@ THE X
TEN GRAPHITE REACTOR. IT WAS
BUILT IN JUST NINE MONTHS
WITH CRITICAL AT FIVE O'CLOCK
IN4@ THE MORNING ON NOVEMBER
FOURTH NINETEEN FORTY THREE X
TEN WHICH WOULD LATER BECOME
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB WAS
THE SMALLEST OF THE THREE
FACILITIES4@ ITS EXPERIMENTAL
GRA4@PHITE REACTOR WAS
THE FIRST PERMANENT NUCLEAR
REACTOR IN4@ THE WORLD WITH
THE KEY TWENTY FIVE GASEOUS
DIFFUSION PLANT WAS BUILT A
MONSTROUS U SHAPED BUILDING
WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST
BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD
URANIUM REACHED A KEY TWENTY
4@ FIVE BED WHEN THE THIRD4@
FACILITY LIKE TWELVE. THEY
ARE MORE THAN TWENTY THOUSAND
WORKERS TOOK4@ URANIUM FROM KEY
TWENTY4@ FIVE IN OTHER
FACILITIES AND USED HOW YOU
TRY TO SEPARATE CAPTURE
URANIUM ISOTOPES WHICH
YIELDED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
THE AMOUNT AT FULL
PRODUCTION THAT WHITE CLOVER
IS PRODUCING A HALF POUND A
DAY WHILE PRODUCING ABOUT A
HALF4@ POUND A WATCH WITH
CONSUMING ABOUT4@ FIFTEEN
PERCENT OF THE NATIONS OF
THE Y TWELVE WAS ALSO HOME TO4@
THE WOMEN BECAME SYMBOLS OF
THE BREACH WAR EFFORT
THE COW YET WRONG GIRLS
MOST OF THEM HAD NO C4@LUE HO@
THEIR WORK TO CHANGE
THE WORLD AGREED TO DO THIS
JOB YOU KNOW YOU KNOW NOT
THE NEW ORDER YOU DON'T KNOW
THE PRODUCT AND YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE YOUR
CUBICLE4@. THIS TRIAL AND ERROR
THAT TR4@IAL AND ERROR HELP
CREATE SOMETHING THAT
THE WORLD HAD4@ NEVER SEEN
BEFORE4@ THE AUGUST SIX
NINETEEN FORTY4@ FIVE LITTLE
BOYS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA
ENDING4@ THE SECOND WORLD WAR
AND SUDDENLY THE SECRET CITY
THE SECRET OF THE DAY YOU DO
THE USUAL ONE AND MAGNITUDE
OF THE JERSEY KNEW HER FOR
WORKING WITH AND I THINK YOU
HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED IF YOU4@
HAD ANY CLUE MORE THAN ONE
HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
DIED IN JAPAN WAS DEVASTATED
BUT HERE IN EAST TENNESSEE
4@PEOPLE WERE REJOICING. I4@
REMEMBER VIVIDLY THAT IT WAS
JUST EXCITING TIME THERE WAS
ALSO A VERY SOBERING
REALIZATION ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THIS BOMB WAS THIS
TERRIBLE NEW WEAPON AND IT
SHOULDN'T. IT CAN'T BE
IGNORED THE PEOPLE REALIZE
THE GRAVITY OF WHAT THEY'VE
DONE AND THE RAMIFICATIONS4@
WOULD BE FELT FOR THE NEXT
4@ SEVENTY FIVE YEARS WE STILL
TODAY4@ ON AS A COUNTRY ARE
TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
HANDLE THIS KNOWLEDGE
RESPONSIBLY. SO THE LAB'S
HISTORY IS DEEPLY CONNECTED
TO THAT TIME WHEN THE NATION
CALLED UPON4@ THIS LABORATORY
TO STEP UP AND BE PART OF4@
THE SOLUTION TO AVOID WAR AND
AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE4@ DIDN'T
KNOW OVER THE SPAN TO GET
TOMORROW'S CUTTING EDGE
TECHNOLOGY WITH NO MORE WARS
TO WIN THE QUESTION AFTER
THE WAR WAS4@ WHAT WOULD WE DO
WITH THIS AMAZING MACHINE
THE GRAPHITE REACTOR HELP4@
THE CREATURES MOVED INTO
THE FUTURE FOLLOWING