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The Oak Ridge History Museum is a history museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Its mission is to document the social impact on Oak Ridge from its role in the World War II Manhattan Project. [1] [2] This is in contrast to the nearly American Museum of Science and Energy, which concentrates of the technical aspects of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge.
The museum opened as the American Museum of Atomic Energy in 1949 [6] in an old World War II cafeteria on Jefferson Circle. It moved to its second facility, a new building at 300 South Tulane Avenue, in 1975 and was renamed AMSE in 1978. [7] As of June 2019, the museum is located in the shopping mall across the street from the old location.
Oak Ridge was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project—the massive American, British, and Canadian operation that developed the atomic bomb. Being the site of Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Y-12 National Security Complex , and several private nuclear facilities, scientific and technological development still plays a ...
At its peak in 1945, Oak Ridge was home to 75,000 people who came from across the region to work on the secretive mission to beat Nazi Germany to the atomic bomb. After the uranium enriched in Oak ...
Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II. It is next to the Atomic Bomb Museum and near the Peace Memorial Hall .
The atomic bomb explosion generated a windstorm several kilometers wide that carried ash, dust, and debris over the mountain ranges surrounding Nagasaki. Approximately 20 minutes after the bombing, a black rain with the consistency of mud or oil came down carrying radioactive material for one to two hours before turning clear. [227]
Kentucky resident Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge to celebrate her 101st birthday. She helped make the first atomic bomb. 101-year-old atomic bomb worker returns to Oak Ridge, where she helped ...
The hit film on J. Robert Oppenheimer has led people to visit Oak Ridge - where he visited a couple of times - to find out what Oak Ridge is about.