How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret
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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.
But also ended the deadliest conflict in human history saving millions more from death!
I would be so proud.
@@gentlemanjones8469 me too
Maclain The war was almost over anyway, the US just wanted to cement its new super power status and scare the soviet union.
Name 99 being proud of thousands of civilian deaths? looks like a horrible person to me.
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. ;)
The government was exposed by a bunch of geeks.
@@TheDuskOfAnEra darn nerds, ruining everything
That's hilarious, like nowadays military bases being revealed via fitness app usage ;)
It gets even better! The publisher in question (I think it was John W. Campbell?) revealed this information to the FBI voluntarily when they came to his office. And why was the FBI in his office?
Because he'd published a short story describing the workings of a hypothetical atomic bomb BEFORE the Trinity test. They assumed he had stolen classified information. He finally explained how the information in the story could be pieced together from public sources, and then, just as the agents were leaving and he was officially off the hook, dropped the tidbit that he knew where the real bomb was being developed because so many subscribers' addresses had changed.
I will never understand how this man managed to die of natural causes.
@@onbearfeet bold of you to assume they were truly natural
It never occurred to me that when the bomb dropped no one even in the US really knew it was coming
USA: *drops bomb
Japan: holy sh.t, what was that?
USA: holy sh.t, what was that?
@@namensklauer hahahaha
@@namensklauer more or less, it was super freaking top secret. As far as most people on the planet were concerned, the war ended VERY suddenly
Truman didn’t know before FDR died
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! =)
My mother inlaw grew up there while they were building the bomb her father worked on it
@@NurseDoll3277 It would be crazy if they knew each other. With the staggered shifts and different factories, it's highly unlikely, though. Thanks for the reply! Be blessed, Alisa, today and always! =)
then he was not very involved at all. most were sent home but the bog dogs were not.
also, that facility is still operating today if you didn't know.
My grandparents and great grandparents as well. 3 generations of my family worked in these plants
No genuine American town is complete without a few nuclear silos in the backyard
No russian house is complete without a nuclear reactor in the basement
никита емельянов or a couple of p90s
No Swiss house is complete without a nuclear shelter. And that’s true!
Salokin O
@@GRBtutorials or chocolate factory
Deleting any comments that say Canada's real
Canada's real
It’s not
Canada’s real
Canada's staged.
I love how much fun your having with this
Imagine being paid thousands of dollars per hour just to watch a meter.
I want that job it compliments my laziness
@@umbur2017 same
it is pretty smart to break the tasks of secret work into miniscule parts, and it does not require special training. Just watch the dial when it reaches this point switch this if it goes to here press this. Mr. X what do you so I turn switches thats it. No secrets revealed under torture.
Wow you are stupid, they didnt get paid that....they were paid regular govt rates for whatever labor position you hold.
Radiation testing without a suit is a horrible idea. It's called a Geiger counter.
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.
Being Canadian, I can tell you that Canada and myself does not exist.
What's this blank space in the comments section for?
@@maninredhelm and the view reply thing?
is free healthcare exist?
lire Canada dose not exist.
Just like Springfield from Simpson.
I live in oak ridge and trust me the city now isn’t anything special....but we do glow in the dark lmao
ur not lying lmao I glow blue hbu
The food sucks
And he said thermonuclear weapons development site like it's normal or something...mmm mmm mmm
Dana Lynn lol
@@pyrujer6495 The golden Barrel is pretty good to eat at.
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
I mean even with all that secrecy and discretion information still got leaked to the soviets and they used that to build their own nuclear weapons just 4 years after the american ones, so it wasnt perfectly hermetical
Don't underestimate the power of money and death. People will participate in all sorts of things if they are paid well enough and/or threatened to secrecy... That includes conspiracies.
tbh 75000 people over a few years is nothing compared to what most conspiracies need.
The people of Oakridge were supporting a popular war. The people of Oakridge were well paid. The people of Oakridge were protected by the military. The people of Oakridge were ignorant of the end goal. So most of the determinates of MICE (the acronym used to understand the motives of a conspirator in betraying his secret: Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego) are missing. Change any of the circumstances and a conspiracy might leak like a sieve.
@@auroraec2657 yeah like moon landing i think there were like 400,000 nasa employees or something
U.S. hides a few towns:
Russia: hold my vodka
"Cherno-what? Sorry, I never heard of this town. Huh? I can't hear you, the line is breaking up. CrAcKle cRaCkLe PSHHHHH" _click_
@@maelstrom2313 chernobyl was thr name of the factory. pripyat was the actual name of the town.
North Korea got em both beat by a long shot.
You mean Voodka
@@maelstrom2313 pripyat?
lol imagine if there was a whole giant country above the United States. Canada is such a weird lie.
United States? You mean South Canada, right?
halimceria Stop suppressing the truth.
Above? Like in the sky? Oh shit
Above on the moon?
Bad Choices I’m working on a rather lengthy video at the moment. I have a pretty demanding full time job that makes it hard to upload regularly. And thanks for watching!
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.
If he designed aircraft, he had to have deduced that whatever he was building was *not* an aircraft.
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.
I'm Canadian and I exist
"10 seconds later"
Mr half as interesting I don't feel so good
My reflection suddenly disappeared, I kid you not
HOW DARE U QUOTE THAT?! XD
Oh snap! I get it☺
Adventure Time
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.
Every city in the US does, at least mine has it..it’s just to test if the sirens are working
@@awooga2846 My city does the sirens daily at a certain time (you can tell they're manual because they're usually one minute late). A town someone I know grew up in did them at 6 AM and 6PM, he used it to know when to go home.
These sirens in Oak Ridge are slightly different because they're nuclear sirens, rather than the regular ol sirens we have.
Sonic Cookie Do you live in the US?
@@awooga2846 yeah
That’s weird, my town must be different then yours, I live in Georgia (north metro Atlanta to be exact)
That awkward moment when you actually work at the US Government secret contrail factory in Garden City, Kansas.
fbi，coming out with your hands down while making irregular
sudden movement.
That’s also where they keep the original Elon Musk and Covfefe
So what's your blog?
I like how people dont understand holding patterns...not you ofc
Pineapple Cake that one awkward moment when I live in Dodge city which is one hour away from garden city
When I saw this I actually hoped this would be about my hometown in Washington where the plutonium was manufactured. They literally went through the exact same scenario, just in the desert. Although the project was named The Manhattan Project to confuse Germany if they heard about it. They figured it would make more sense to Germany that we were working on this project in a major city because it would be easier for scientists to gather.
I spent a year during my college time in Knoxville. I met a woman who had worked at Oak Ridge prior to Hiroshima. When it was announced that the bomb was the result of their work, she quit her job and returned home. She could not imagine being a part of that destructive weapon.
@@edu7979 are better than men
Lmaoo white people is so fragile...Japan lied to us about the peace treaty and bomb pearl harbour
Learn to love the bomb. Before the bomb wars were constant and countless. 100k were killed to prevent the death of 10 million and end the war. Since then wars have been few. NO wars between major powers and most importantly no world wars. The bomb brings peace, but it also can bring the end.
I can imagine a lot of people quitting but at the same time I can also imagine the town not having a use for those factory workers after the bomb was dropped
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!!
Stop.
I can confirm
If the earth were a globe, then maybe I could believe there is something north of Montana. But since the earth is flat, and I can't see anything up north, there can not be any Canada. Maybe Canadians exist although that confuses me.
I'm still laughing 😂😂😂 this is beautiful. Thank you for brightening my day.
Maple wavesss 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Nice !
I live in Oak Ridge! It’s an awesome town with lots of history, much more history than Knoxville
Omg my brother Rows with Atomic!!
That sounds exactly like something someone who doesn’t exist would say
@@abby_grace76 What?
Meymes she’s talking about the rowing teams lol
I live in OR too. Heard the new museum sucks lol
We still do this kind of thing today it's called compartmentalised top secret programs one person may not know what the person sitting in the desk next to him is doing
Oh that ain't nothing that's what Mark Zuckerberg did in Hawaii he use eminent domain to make Native aborigine Hawaiian move off their secret Land that they owned by Word of Mouth there are no papers saying where are you inherited this Mark Zuckerberg use deceit and eminent domain to force them off their land so he can have an ocean side view what a fucking scumbag
Google search right here on CZcams Mark Zuckerberg still native Hawaiian land but that's not surprising because he kicked some of his business partners out of Facebook once he saw how much money is going to make this man will continue to make enemies until somebody put him down
@@joejose8433 yeah that's kind of like Jeff Bezos is hostile takeover the USPS by using them for a. Of time than just purchasing his own vans in his own aircraft and then telling them to get f***** no wonder the USPS doesn't run the same way
@@joejose8433 these Mega Rich assholes tend to think that they can use their money in any way they would like including destroying America
Imagine being that guy who was just tasked with watching a dial and finding out after the war that if you had let that dial go over 100% for even a second, the entire city would've been leveled or something.
I am Canadian, and I can confirm that my country, Canada, *does not exist.*
its one huge secret amusement park
Nothing is real
CJets
Yes, you live in North Minnesota. It pretends it’s its own country for some reason.
Hmm, a blank comment on youtube. Peculiar.
But... But I do exist!
When you're actually from oak ridge and this is amazing. But yeah, every first Wednesday of each month for 4 minutes the sirens go off
Rebekka Rutherford yeah it always freaks me out because we live really close to the sirens
I was really scared of the sirens when I was younger, but I think it’s pretty cool now.
My city tests them the first Tuesday of every month
What's the point? Just want to let you know you are about to die so here's an annoying siren before you go..
What time of the day does it go off?
Why do I feel like you, Wendover Productions, RealLifeLore, and Mustard are the same guy?
Because they are lol
@@SuperDreammaster Nico De Groote nope. Wendover is the same as HAI, but RLL and Mustard are different. It's as simple as going to HAI's channel and going to the channel tab. This is further proven by the newest video on one of Wendover's other channels, Sam from Wendover, where he shows himself travelling to Rwanda with RLL.
If you're wondering why they all have the same style, including real engineering, real science, polymatter, alternate history, and others, well I can't answer that but they all are now present on the Nebula streaming service, so I can assure you they are sharing editing tricks with each other if they also set up a platform together.
@@PeterNjeim Thx, goes to show there's always a bigger fish ;)
Pretty sure he’s rll aswell
because they are...
0:00 "This video was made possible by Hover"
*angry SquareSpace noises*
It's truly a miracle of geography that an island such as Alaska has such a straight coastline!
My great grandfather was one of those who knew before the bombs dropped. He was in the team that created Kevlar and the shell design of the bomb.
What about Los Alamos, NM? It was even more secret during the war. It was the one city in the US that had enough bomb shelter space for everyone who lived there.
@@eli8829 "most of the radioactive material was produced there" maybe if you only count u-235 as Product. Remember they had enough Pu-239 for a test run as well as the live run, and supposedly enough in the works to make another device very shortly after if needed. I dont know the difference in weights used in the bombs so the U-235 bomb could have had more overall material I suppose. As far as most material produced Hanford takes the cake not 100% sure about during war production but 100% for sure for cold war production. Hanford produced 57 tons of product through its life making up a majority of the US stockpile. It was meant to do one thing and that thing was produce as much Pu-239 as possible.
If you only knew how big Oak ridge is underground you might not make that statement.
Yooo that dollar general is where I buy my sour patch kids.
If Canada is not real then I'm not real which means I don't have to pay taxes
Mirrors, our eyes, nothin!
MasicBemester ?
Dear Isaac Cool,
Just because you don't exist doesn't mean you get out of paying your taxes.
Love,
The IRS.
Daniel McLaughlin I'm in Canada the IRS dose not govern me Revenue Canada dose but then again Canada dose not exist
Isaac Cool i am pretty sure i know why you edited. So you comment dosn't get deleted, right? Or am i wrong
“Small town” population: 75,000... that’s a city in England 😂
Depends on what state you are in, in TN it is a city, in CA it is a town.
Also a city in Canada
I live in phoenix az, nearing 4 million people
@@laradazzle naw just a another usa colony 😂
@@Xlicty isn't the us originally a British colony?
Oak ridge was the inspiration for the name of the country group the Oak Ridge boys, who had great success on the country charts for many years.
My entire family has worked for y12, k25 and ORNL which are the names of the plants where the bombs were built k25 is for the most part gone but y12 is still going strong I live in oak ridge and about 4 miles from y12. Awesome video just discovered this channel and subscribed loving it so far.
But, does it have Toyota Carolla?
idk but it has airplanes
wrong channel mate
Wrong channel lmao
Corolla*
He might have gotten the channel wrong, but at least they are related channels who have collaborated together so it's not so crazy
Did they use hover for that eminent domain?
Mark Zuccerman ha. Ha.
The people who really knew what was going on were in NM... and if one of them hadn't gotten curious about Oak Ridge, TN might not be real anymore.
The people in TN stacked blocks of metal, sort of like gold bricks, in rooms. (Lead-lined rooms.) They were only supposed to stack a certain number of blocks in each room. The scientist from NM found out that the TN people thought that that was silly, and had been putting them all in one room. Oak Ridge was about a month or less away from a critical mass of uranium when the scientist got there, saw what they were doing, contacted General Groves... and the blocks quickly were redistributed. (I have a feeling the soldiers responsible for this got redistributed, too!)
I love how you throw shades and crack jokes makes your videos super fun to watch keep up the awesome work.
Great video, My grandfather was one of the plant mangers at Oak Ridge K-25 gaseous diffusion plant. He passed away in 2013 in Oak Ridge. Who knows what kind of secrets went with him.
According to this video: close to none :)
Rob424 my grandfather worked there also. He was in charge of the parts warehouse. He died of cancer....but the government did pay for all his treatments. It's amazing they had no idea what they were working on. My grandfather wouldn't even tell my grandmother what he did all day. I headed to DC tomorrow. Going to check out the Oak Ridge museum. Did your grandfather get a certificate stating he worked there signed by Robert Oppenheimer? What an unbelievable story this is!
My grandfather helped decontaminate the K-25 site .
My grandpa also worked at k-25. Has mesotheolioma because of it too. :(
Thats cool. My grandfather worked in Union Carbide from 1944 - 1979. He was the Vice President of UC. My father said he knew Robert Oppenheimer well.
It's obviously not secret anymore, ain't it?
HibernateMC wow
Nope, I've been there - the American Museum of Science and Energy is there now and schools go on field trips there and stuff
"Kids, this is where we made a bomb that killed hundreds of thousands people, have fun."
Yes it is top secret
And has a iron wall surrounding it
It doesn't have to be secret anymore. The war is over
Viewing from OAK RIDGE TENNESSEE! Oak Ridge is a pretty big town and the labs where the bombs were constructed still exist and thousands of people still work there!
Wait what?
i’m fairly new to your content. i can tell that the level of nuances are going to keep me coming back
0:14
Me: That's nice place to live
0:16
*GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME*
I know! 2 McDonald’ses?! That’s horrible!
@@pretzelbomb6105 underrated comment
100th like
@@pretzelbomb6105 he's right; underrated comment!!
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal I totally agree!!
I go to school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and I often take for granted that ORNL is just down the road (and often works closely with the school). It’s a pretty normal town now, but the history is dark and fascinating and if you are interested in energy science or WWII history, you should definitely pay it a visit.
My grandpa was warking as an engineer at a closed city outside of Moscow. He was making engines for rockets, but he said he had never known what it was for.
My dad was born there during that time his dad was an engineer that worked their and his mom was a nurse and school teacher.
Imagine your mom being a school teacher and finding out you can’t spell “there” 🤣
Wish I'd have known this oak ridge video was coming out. But I guess you had to keep it secret too. I'm in oak ridge every day. You didn't even mention how there weren't street signs, alphabet streets, and other tricks to keep it confusing to someone.
I never knew that and i live in knoxville
As someone who grew up in the Ridge, I can assure you there is only so much weirdness about OR that will fit in a 5 minute video.
How about the fact that Outer Drive was origionally part of the outer patrol road?
And that we (Oak Ridge) have our own Nostrodomus, John Hendrix.
I live in Wartburg. So it’s the only time I actually see people when I visit Oakridge a few times a week. Oakridge has more kids in their high school then Wartburg has people. Moral of the story that is completely unrelated to anything is that don’t live in Wartburg
1:24 No, you're good: you've only got eagles on your hats. No skulls here!
But they have 'That.Look'
Alaska Skidood I wouldn't trust those ties
General Squarepants the ties are not to be trusted
They named it the Manhattan project because the main Army Corps of Engineers office was in Manhattan. The Army Corps of Engineers had a tradition of naming their projects after the main office.
4:23 I'm sure this is _definitely_ a relatable experience for everyone watching.
Just like District 13 in the Hunger Games...
or the ones in USSR
trust me we are not
District what?
@Beumadine Sweevy I've been warning people.about "them" for years...
¢anada ¡s real
You can't delete this.
Liar
€anada is not real
yes it is real
that’s just earth propaganda telling you Canada exists
@@sagehenry7880 No it's not it's a conspiricy against tde worldd!!11!1!11
I went there a couple weeks ago to look at some abandoned places and found out the history of it as I was driving there. The power plant is still standing and operational.
I just discovered your channel and you are hilarious, instantly subbed
Sounds like a Soviet town on American ground.
Well, they had food at least
That's a band name.
Food though
The authoritarianism does parallel though
Oh here you are again
Please make a video called "Why I Have No Idea What I'm Doing".
Thomas I'm just reloading the comments
Thomas I dunno why I'm saying this
I dunno why I liked your comment, but I did :3.
Finally a video I can relate to
Sounds like you should make it
watching from oak ridge. Neither of our mcdonalds are 24/7
watching from crossville with my trusty satellite internet
Even most of the people IN Oakridge didn't know what they were working on. Feynman recounts going down there one time to check on the progress of uranium enrichment and found the team at Oak Ridge Lab storing multiple cylinders of highly enriched uranium hexafloride gas in one storeroom. He said "hey guys, you ever wonder why it gets so warm in here?" When they replied that they did he was like "you gotta spread this stuff out..." and then explained why. They had no idea.
I knew it would be Oak Ridge as soon as I saw the title. I've been there a few times, if you live close enough to drive you should definitely visit. It's now a world-class science lab that offers tours of pretty much everything.
I gotta say this. Your main channel is interesting, but half as interesting for me is far more interesting.
Typing this makes me question why is interesting spelled interesting.
Interesting
I've frequently found myself pondering that very question, why, of all spellings, is the word interesting spelled interesting.
Should be spelled “intristing”
Based on our interesting pronunciation
Deronn .J
Well it's spelled like it's pronounced, unlike a lot of English words
Shamic Entertainment it depends some people pronounce it “intristing”
Sammy
Intronkstingsed
My father's family was one of those households told to leave Oak Ridge during WWII.
My maternal grandmother worked there and didn’t know what it was about. She blamed her later disease that killed her on her exposure to radiation there.
“A thermo nuclear test site” you said it so casually
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Hey, I'm from Oak Ridge, the inflated self importance thing is still very accurate.
_"I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day, you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world."_
- Howard Stark
@Totally Random Person _"I think someday, somehow, Oak Ridge will open up to the world over."_ - Me
i have a canadian passport but i never heard of canada does anyone know what that is?
I heard something about it at school, but I can’t remember.
2:36 me neither-the animator
I died laughing
This is my town! My grandparents worked on top secret stuff during the war. My grandpa was a nuclear engineer. The craziest stuff happens here still today, because we're home to the National Lab. We have a city wide disaster siren they test the first wednesday of every month, and the security police and the dhs still patrol the city.
The hilarious part about the poster at 2:23 is that they used to post that exact same message in MLB dugouts.
Awesome upload
Canada? Is that a soviet satelite state or something?
No but their neighbor in the south is aiming at that status. Their infamous leader handling the talks.
It is Big Cuba.
I thought the Manhattan project was named that because the office was located on the 18th floor of 270 Broadway in New York.
I'm surprised he didn't mention los Alamos NM which was also a secret and where the majority of the work on the bombs was done.
1:26 Nice Mitchell And Webb ref!
Yo, where my fellow oak ridgers at? Seriously my great grandpa was forced to sell his land for it. Its an ok city.
Same thing happened to all the farmers who had to go for the norris lake
Gang gang!!!! Oak ridge
not from the ridge but close by
I live in knox so I've been there quite a few times
Yo I lived there a year ago shout out to Jefferson middle school
Is it Springfield?
SlothfulSalad woah
Springfield is Canada
I grew up in Nashville hearing stories as a kid of the "secret city" that was built overnight in the middle of nowhere in East TN. It had homes, stores, schools, sewage, bus system, hospital and much more. It began in 1942 obtaining about 60,000 acres buying/relocating the few hundred residents there. Amazingly by the height of operation in summer of 1945 the population was about 75,000. There were 2 plants to enrich uranium 1 of which at the time was the largest building in the world and 1 plant that was the worlds 1st permanent nuclear reactor and plutonium processing plant. A portion of the original site is now (ORNL) Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Being from Garden City, Kansas and hearing that outro was a trip!!
My mom explained this. My grandpa worked there as an atomic engineer during the Cold War and my Great Grandpa worked as a gate guard during WWII.
*_...are there any similarly secret towns today-covered as hypertechnology test sites (fun)..._*
This would be a great video
Your sense of humor cracks me up
Already giving this video a thumbs up just for your description of New York.
So accurate. 🤣
If they can keep this a secret... think of the other things they can keep a secret... I don’t like conspiracies or follow them but I don’t blame people who go out looking at conspiracies
And remember, they only had to keep the secret for four years. When the Trinity bomb test took place, the Army told the news media that a tragic explosion had blown up a munitions storage site (20,000 tons of TNT). Less than a month later, when Hiroshima was bombed, people understood that that story was a cover, and later the government confirmed the truth.
Some conspiracies are created as cover up :)
Well, the Soviets had spies in the Manhattan project and US authorities weren't able to keep this a secret at all. So much for the conspiracies...
I live near Hanford and the government even got with the nearby cities officials and almost universally everyone joined in on the secrecy. Its mind blowing that a city, a public one, kept a nuclear site secret or at least mostly secret. Now imagine that but a tight knit group of individuals with actual power, who knows what they could accomplish.
I live in a magical place north of the United States called the Arctic ocean, and I can confirm I never saw a place called "Canada".
Who names a place "Canada"!?
3:10 Depending on how important that meter is. If this guy ever messed up its possible Oak ridge would have actually dissappeares
It's interesting that you didn't mention how they kept the massive amount of electricity in the area a secret that was what was needed to build and run that system hence the Great American aluminum factories were built around that specific area takes a lot of electricity in those aluminum plants that's how they diverted a massive amount of the grid over to the nuclear development without alerting the enemy forces to what was actually going on
Yes, you can make WW2 jokes
He's affraid of making anyone Führeous.
As long as it's been at least 26.3 years, you're good on making a joke about it.
Anne Frankly, I don't find these jokes funny.
I hate myself for laughing at that, but I love it nonetheless.
Im sorry Ace Hearts, but I find WW2 jokes Hitlerious
Where is skillshare?
Darren Woodward You can't have Hover and Skillshare in the same video. Mutually assured destruction.
I love your sense of humor
You got my like for the Stalin joke
Was it hidden by a wall of 7(5/8) x 2(5/8) x 2(1/4) bricks?
dont you mean donald trumps wall?
Canada is real! Wait why is the FBI knoking on my door?
It was Roosevelt's wife who told the VP after his death that something had to be told to him he did not know about. That was the first time LBJ was told of the project, just as they were setting up for the bombings.
Lol, I actually live somewhat near Oak Ridge Tennessee. Nowadays, it's our preferred location to go bowling and go to the theaters, and it's still referred to by many people as the "Secret City" which is also seen in a couple of store names, such as the Secret City Exchange, which is a retro gaming/DVD/VHS store
The country music group, The Oak Ridge Boys, took their name from Oak ridge Tn. They were originally called Wally Fowler and the Georgia clod hoppers but they were invited to sing for the employees and families of the National Laboratory at Oak ridge, they decided to change their name to the Oak ridge boys.
They worked on the Manhattan Project - to develop a fission bomb. They didn’t develop “thermonuclear weapons”, that’s the H bomb, developed after the war.
My grandmas father and mother lived on oak ridge, her father was an important nuclear scientist.
must be hard to not be able to tell anyone that a 75 k community was too classified even to confirm.
My father worked in Oak Ridge in the 80s. Very interesting history and town.
My grandpa worked at Hanford (and lived in the area until his death a few years ago), and I was born in Los Alamos. Always wanted to visit Oak Ridge to complete the set. Hello to all my "glowing" friends from secret cities. :)