The U.S. Government’s Top-Secret Town

By JacobSloan on April 16, 2012 in News 5

Via A Continuous Lean, an entrancing glimpse of life inside a city, created as part of the Manhattan Project, with a secret purpose. Imagine if your sunny suburban daily existence served merely as a front for the real action occurring in your town:

In 1942, the government acquired 70,000 acres in Eastern Tennessee and established Oak Ridge…developed for the sole purpose of separating uranium for the Manhattan Project. The completely planned community was designed by the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and had a population of more than 70,000 people. Due to the sensitive nature of the work at Oak Ridge, the entire town was fenced in with armed guards. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge office recently started to digitize its archival photos and share them through Flickr.

Conspiracies, Government, History, manhattan project, nostalgia, Nuclear Weapons, oak ridge, Secrets, Tennessee

Liam_McGonagle

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Mason Free

If this town is so “secret,” why is the subject of an article on Disinfo?
- smooth_operator
  
  Built in 1942, as the article says. In other words, it was highly secretive then. The entire Manhattan Project was top-secret, but because it’s over a half-century old, some of the secretiveness has faded.
  
  Are you stoned?
Atom322

Except that Oak Ridge was built for the sole purpose as serving as a place of local residence for US government employees, scientists, engineers, and builders. It’s not like it was a real secret, not to the residents at least and not to anyone driving by.
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