Anywhere near Oak Ridge this weekend?
This looks to be an awesome festival if you are into Science history.
Oak Ridge is one of the sites where the first atomic bombs were developed and its other name was Secret City.
This weekend is the
Secret City festival:
Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II
More than 10,000 residents and visitors are expected to participate in the 2005 event which will feature the world premiere of the documentary film "Secret City: The Oak Ridge Story," a TVA/Manhattan Project Family Reunion, an expanded World War II re-enactment, Oak Ridge history story telling, fun activities for children and much more.
CNN also
has the story:
Bomb-building facility opens its doors
Public gets rare look at calutrons that fueled first A-bomb
The government is offering a rare glimpse of the massive machines used to enrich uranium for the "Little Boy" bomb -- the first atomic weapon used in war, dropped 60 years ago in August on Hiroshima, Japan.
Inside the high-security Y-12 nuclear weapons plant remain the last of 1,152 calutrons that once filled nine buildings. The machinery was part of the top-secret bomb-building Manhattan Project, which turned this rural countryside about 30 miles west of Knoxville into a "secret city" of 75,000 people between 1942 and 1945.
"Don't you know the people in Knoxville wondered what in the world was going on out here," Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said Monday. "All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left."
Dang!
Posted by DaveH at June 16, 2005 12:17 PM