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Friendship Bell rings 80 years after Hiroshima bombing
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is home to the top-secret Manhattan Project, where scientists enriched the bomb's uranium core.
For the first time ever, two demolition projects underway at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building 3003 and the former Radioisotope Development Lab are both being demolished. 3003 was a support facility for the ...
The Atomic Age began 80 years ago when the U.S. dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.
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From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age
It started in secrecy and ended with a mushroom cloud. The daughter of Manhattan Project technician shares what it meant to be raised in the long shadow of the Manhattan Project.
Oak Ridge honoring 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Many people gathered in Oak Ridge at sunrise Wednesday morning to honor 80 years since the atomic ...
Oak Ridge remembers bombing of Hiroshima with ringing of friendship bell 80 years later
The Manhattan Project National Park held its annual bell-ringing ceremony at A.K. Bissell park to commemorate the 80th year since the end of World War II.
Headline 80 years ago declared, 'Atomic super-bomb, made at Oak Ridge, strikes Japan'
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ...
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‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ documents motivation and development of the atomic bomb
The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ...
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The shoulders you stand on today
Because Nevada has 300 sunny days a year and the U.S. government owns 87% of our state’s sparsely populated state, yet in the ...
Review: 'The Devil Reached Toward the Sky' weaves thorough account of Atomic Age's start
An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” tells the story of the atomic bomb and its consequences. The ...
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And the world was changed forever
Edward R. Tompkins was a brilliant and well-regarded science teacher from Winterset, Iowa, who had a habit of keeping in ...
Sandra Grimes, who helped unmask a CIA traitor, dies at 79
Sandra Grimes became suspicious when she discovered large deposits in the bank account of Aldrich Ames, whose betrayal cost the lives of at least eight double agents. She was recruited by the CIA ...