Seventy-five years ago this week, the federal government quietly took over 60,000 acres of farmland nestled in the ridges of east Tennessee. It told residents to leave, then built a city cloaked in secrecy that tens of thousands of people would flock to during World War II.
Nashville Public Radio’s Emily Siner (@SinerSays) has the story of Oak Ridge, the city that helped build the world’s first atomic bomb.
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