How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret

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One of my favorite bits of trivia about Manhattan Project sites is that Sci Fi magazine printers were able to deduce where some of them were due to the increased subscriptions in those towns as scientists were moved to them. ;)

lostthepirate
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No genuine American town is complete without a few nuclear silos in the backyard

salokin
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Imagine not knowing what you’re building to find out the next day on a newspaper that what you helped create killed a lot of people in a blink of an eye.

zulqy.
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My grandfather worked in Oak Ridge when the "factories" were there. He told of how different groups of workers clocked in at different times. They kept them separated, so the groups couldn't talk about what they were making. He was given a small gold lapel pin, with the nuclear symbol on a rocket. He said the day before it was dropped, they were thanked, and sent home. He said he had done his part in the war effort. Thanks for this video! Be blessed, today and always! =)

karenallen
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Deleting any comments that say Canada's real

halfasinteresting
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It never occurred to me that when the bomb dropped no one even in the US really knew it was coming

thehoodedteddy
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I live in oak ridge and trust me the city now isn’t anything special....but we do glow in the dark lmao

danalynn
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lol imagine if there was a whole giant country above the United States. Canada is such a weird lie.

FutureNow
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Imagine being paid thousands of dollars per hour just to watch a meter.

maruftim
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My grandpa worked there. None of my family even knew about it until his death became closer. He was an aerospace engineer and was responsible for determining the sizes, shapes, weight, center-of-gravity, glide distance, etc. for this project. None of us ever found out if he knew what he was doing though. He also designed aircraft and may of thought that that's what he was designing.

TimTVOfficial
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Being Canadian, I can tell you that Canada and myself does not exist.

Dynazyde
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While going to the University of Tennessee in nearby Knoxville during the early ‘70s, I had a friend that lived in Oak Ridge up on a hill overlooking it. He liked to use his binoculars to gaze at the scenery, until he got a visit from the FBI. He never did it again. Those signs “loose lips sink ships” were still there.

Sammiejomitchell
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Canadian here, we exist, but only as virtual fluctuations in the Canada field. When someone apologizes, we transmit the remorse through an acceleration of a "Canadian" which sends out maple waves. These waves collapse aboot a point which is experienced as the polite niceties you sometimes here aboot. We're just a consequence of the math involved, and aren't physical in the sense you might be thinking of, i.e Canada doesn't exist, hope this clears it up!!

brendanotoole
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See, I've always believed since early highschool that the idea of conspiracies can never be true because of how many people would have to keep it a secret is impossible. This just stabbed that in the chest. F*ck

Gerwulf
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U.S. hides a few towns:


Russia: hold my vodka

ebdhudnav
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I've lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee my whole life, we have nuclear siren testing drills the first wednesday of every month at 12 o clock, it's really loud btw.

_StockMiata
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I live in Oak Ridge! It’s an awesome town with lots of history, much more history than Knoxville

dcktor
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I had a great great uncle (great grandma's brother) that left their small town mysteriously to work on something for the government. FBI interviewed everyone there. He was an engineer.
He never talked about where he went or what he did, and everyone finally learned to not ask because it was obviously upsetting for him. He took that info to his grave but we're all pretty sure he worked on some sort of project related to nuclear bombs.
There's definitely a variance on how the scientists who worked on these projects feel about what they did. Los Alamos has a few different educational sites dedicated to it that are interesting, if not a little weird.

jk-qjqz
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That awkward moment when you actually work at the US Government secret contrail factory in Garden City, Kansas.

illusionfaderr
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I am Canadian, and I can confirm that my country, Canada, *does not exist.*

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