It's a popular fun fact that communicates the scale of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge. In his 1987 memoir "The Road to Trinity," Col. Kenneth Nichols, who oversaw the Oak Ridge and Hanford ...

The Hermes Project. Fast forward to the 21st century, and Oak Ridge is once again a focal point for nuclear advancement.

Thus, they both knew at the outset about the purpose of the Manhattan Project ... despite the success of the Trinity Test. He ...

In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...

During the Manhattan Project (1943-45), the Oak Ridge ... affected by the radioactive fallout from the Trinity test, they were sent to Oak Ridge in 1948 for monitoring. They grazed on 5,000 ...

"He needed the uranium that was being produced here." Oak Ridge was built in 1942 to support the Manhattan Project by creating the enriched uranium that would fuel Little Boy, the bomb dropped on ...

But even now, the eastern Tennessee city of Oak Ridge is not widely recognized for the contributions of its African American work force to a monumental project in U.S. history and its role as one ...

(WATE) — Just as they were making strides to break ground on the Oak Ridge Airport Project, the City paused its development. The City paused the project to make way for a proposed uranium ...