If you have enjoyed past posts about the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge, or if you have enjoyed either of the Oak Ridge/Manhattan Project b...

I've written before about Oak Ridge and the Manhattan Project, the race with the Germans to build an atomic bomb during World War II. ...

The Manhattan Project-era Army Guest House, also known as the Alexander Inn, came one step closer to being saved this week. The U.S. Depar...

The State of Tennessee's tourism office has developed a number of driving trips across the state. The newest one is in our area. The T...

The Y-12 Electromagnetic Separations Plant was one of three installations for the Manhattan Project sited in east Tennessee in 1943. Its ...

I'm currently re-reading a book I first read more than 40 years ago. The Oak Ridge Story , by George O. (Gus) Robinson, Jr., was first...

In Oak Ridge, Tennessee's, A. K. Bissell Park there is a Japanese Pagoda-like structure containing a traditional Japanese bell. Nearly...

U.S. Government photograph During the war-time Manhattan Project, the place that would later become known as Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a c...

One of the amenities the army provided in the Townsite area was a public library. It, too, was a wood-frame, temporary structure and was lat...

Just west of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Townsite the army built one of three chapels in the new town. It was completed late in 1943 for use b...

The photograph is a view of Oak Ridge, Tennessee's, main business district during the Manhattan Project taken by the army's official...

The American Museum of Science and Energy   in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a display of a so-called "flat-top" house. The populati...

Selection of a principal location for the war-time Manhattan Project involved multiple criteria. The selected location had to have suffic...