Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge was a city built in the U.S. in 1942. 100,000 people lived and worked there doing very specific tasks, most of whom with no idea of what they were working towards. In 1945, they made the horrific realization that they had been working on making the atomic bombs all along when they saw news reports of the atomic bombings of Japan.

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