Oak Ridge: The Secret Atomic City
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The US government successfully hid an entire city of seventy-five thousand people right in
the middle of Tennessee. It wasn't on any map, visitors were stopped by armed guards,
and the whole thing was built for one specific purpose: to build the atomic bomb.
Back in the forties, the government seized fifty-nine thousand acres of farmland and built the town
of Oak Ridge from scratch. To get the original farmers to leave without asking questions,
the military lied and said they were building a demolition range, hoping the threat
of constant explosions would keep people away. Construction happened so fast that contractors
were handing over keys to a new house every thirty minutes. They used these prefab structures
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