A Rare Look at the Secret Site of the Atomic Bomb
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In 1942, one thousand families were pushed out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of The Manhattan Project - the US government's top secret initiative to engineer an atomic bomb.
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My best friends dad worked at Y-12 . Throughout his whole life , he never told anyone, not even family , what he did. He only said that he worked on a machine.
He has a brain then just like anyone else who works there. Sell yourself to the government for big pay and big pension. Ill do it for my family
My dad would would tell me stories about his dad walking miles from west tn to oak ridge just to work at that place. He would never tell him what it was about only that it was work. Wish I had asked my dad more about this before he passed in 2016. Would have been some interesting family history.
The old "Katie's Kitchen" is no longer there. It was demolished in the eighties after being abandoned for decades. It was very interesting. A reinforced concrete structure with a wooden barn covering it for camouflage. Many hidden things buried and long forgotten.
Could you tell me anymore about that? I'm currently researching oak ridge and I haven't heard of Katie's kitchen, sounds interesting
@@Wills4gottenbday Perhaps but I'd have to be careful. Uncle Sam is still sensitive about some topics. I haven't retired yet.
My first cousin twice removed, Dr Donald MacRae, who was a physicist and later the Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and yes, he was a Canadian, landed a job there to find ways to enrich plutonium for the Manhattan program. He worked closely with the Oppenheimer team to undertake, albeit a hurried process, to insure the program was ready for deployment.
I'm from that area. The video talks about it like it was one plant. In reality there where three plants codename X-10, K-25, and Y-12. An entire city was also built near the plants to house the workers brought in. You had to go through a checkpoint and have your car searched to enter the town. That town is the city of Oak Ridge today. My mother and much of my extended family worked on the Manhattan Project.
I'm from that area, many of my relatives worked there during the Manhattan project.
That is true. There was Berkley, and Lawrence, but Oak Ridge was the main factory.
Plutonium was all produced at Hanford, WA. It was the preeminent bomb-making material. Berkley (sic) didn't produce anything. Lawrence Livermore wasn't constructed until after WW2.
Rocky Flats, Colorado 1952-1989
Currently Pantex Plant outside Amarillo, Texas in terms of manufacturing nuclear weapons.
I was born there in 1982. A strange, yet interesting heritage, aside from my being half Eastern Cherokee (the Native people of the area)
Cherokee eh? I used to travel over the mountains to the Cherokee reservation with my parents occasionally in the late sixties. The only thing they made was tomahawks and bullwhips. Looking back, they must have been badass!
I’m 1/1000 part Cherokee.
Wouldn't that make you "Chief Bucky Larson"?
@@456swagger enrolled as half
I was also born in 1982 but in Loudon. Maybe 25-30 miles away. Everyone around here knew about it but people outside of East Tennessee didn’t. What a huge secret for people to keep but it worked
I went through the tat welding training program in 1977 at Y12.
Worked at Y-12 for almost 39 years.
My freind bob worked there during the MP. He says he saw mercury in 4 different forms, gas, solid, liquid & the fourth he couldn’t disclose.
He nay have known my first cousin, a Canadian physicist, Dr Donald MacRae!
I was one of the last babies born in a federal hospital in Oak Ridge. I'm sitting in a former Manhattan Project warehouse typing this note out.
Title should be “View of Oak Ridge in modern times where plutonium was concentrated for the first atomic bomb”.
I live there, and I’m learning about WW2 in school.
I live here lol
Where bro I live next to the lake
Grew up in Anderson County...all my family is still there.
I do too woah
I'm really proud to have grown up there.
I've worked there but I've never "grown up". I've lost a lot of friends from there over the years so like many my fingers stay crossed.
Me too. Linden, Robertsville, ORHS
Same thing in Weldon Spring, Missouri.
is the Y-12 complex still in operation today?
Derek Wall no
@@silasgreene5825 i see.
Yes it is
@@isabeltucker6998 too bad they tore down the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant. that was probably the largest building ever constructed in the history of mankind
Yes they may not build atomic bombs but people work their on secret projects
the eruption of Mt. Saint Helen nearly 40 years ago was the power of 500 atomic bombs but the casualties were much higher when the atomic bomb was dropped
I grew up in Knoxville but spent many summers in Oak Ridge and still work in OR today. Despite its roots of war its a very forward thinking, intellectual, and liberal place in Tennessee. (the only liberal place in TN)
Oak Ridge residents aren't "liberal". Liberals are close minded , bigoted, intolerant , and intellectually lazy. Most are mentally locked in the anti- American sixties and group people according to skin color and genitalia.
I live there
I'm going to a regatta there this weekend
Born there in 1944.
Don't blame the workers. They were totally clueless and only realized what they did after the nukes were dropped above Japan.
I heard the bombs were dropped on japan, because they banned freemasonry.
Do you know how many people would have died if we didn't drop those bombs
MLG_ freddy_56 more civilians and soldiers that both nukes combined. The US military estimated 3 million civilians alone in an invasion of Japan, and another 1.5 million Japanese soldiers. I don’t understand why people are still against dropping the nukes
blame the emperor
I worked at Y-12 for almost 39 years.
My husband working here Washing the dirty dishes 😄
I live 25 minutes from there in Lenoir city
I live in Maryville, another 20 minutes away, so under an hour away from Oak Ridge.
Yeah who what when why! Where was you! Family!
I work there!
What did CBS Late Host do? He talks about Tennessee! Wrong! Shut your Trap!
Ah yes where I live currently
Doesn't matter where you live. This channel and many lie.
Y-12 Baby!!!!
USA THERMONUCLEAR Weapon manufacuring !!!!
Black Oak Ridge
black oak ridge is something different in Knoxville. but oak ridge has definitely got its secrets and I fear they aren't good. I live 15 minutes from the lab.
Iam Anindividual I cant believe the labs are still open. How close can you drive to the building shown in this video?
@@iamanindividual5456 Oakridge was given a super computer at the Oakridge national laboratory.
@@iamanindividual5456 Freemasons are slaves to this system. They serve Lucifer. Their are secret societys in this world that serve something beyond this world way above Lucifer. Top to bottom. Payday Monsanto.
Yes there are Black people living in Oak Ridge. Don't you get out much?
Shame...people forcibly removed from their homes. The government gets more and more oppressive each day.
yes would have been better if Japan made it to our shores dum ass
Paul Lawrence do you still believe that crap?
How about F.D.R. signing Executive Order 9066, imprisoning over 100,000 Americans who were totally innocent of any crimes. They were sent to American prison camps after their bank accounts and property were confiscated. They weren't charged or tried, just imprisoned unconstitutionally by "open minded and tolerant" Democrats. Some things never change.