Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the secret Manhattan Project city that enriched uranium for the first atomic bombs, employing a massive workforce in industrial-scale production. While Los Alamos got the attention, Oak Ridge supplied the fissile material. Today Oak Ridge National Laboratory continues as a leading nuclear research hub.
For the first time, the newsreel camera is allowed inside the atom bomb city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where a vast army of workers kept the secret of a new age.
Los Alamos gets most of the Manhattan Project attention, but it was here, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that the industrial end of the U.S.'s nuclear program got going. This is where we enriched the uranium that would go into the first atomic bombs. In the decades that have followed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has remained as a major nuclear technology research hub.
