Oak Ridge and Hanford: the secret cities
1943 · Event
Two instant cities rise in secrecy — Oak Ridge in Tennessee to separate uranium-235, Hanford in Washington to breed plutonium — employing tens of thousands who mostly never learn what they are making. Oak Ridge briefly uses more electricity than New York City.
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More from The Manhattan Project
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Einstein-Szilard letter (1939)
- Los Alamos Laboratory established (1943)
- Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb (1942)
- The Interim Committee recommends use (1945)
- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
- The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible (1941)
Around 1943
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- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)