Also during 1942, the Manhattan District of the Corps of Engineers was formed to construct three secret "cities" for major portions of atomic bomb development. At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear ...

Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion ...

The Trump administration is working to rehire nuclear weapons employees whose jobs it terminated, including some at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. The Department of Energy did not ...

Freeman, PhD in Sociology & Historical Studies. Freeman is the author of This Atom Bomb in Me (Redwood Press/Stanford University Press), Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (UNC Press ...