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U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility
jonerik writes "According to this article from the Associated Press, the US government is this week permitting the public a rare glimpse of its high-security Y-12 nuclear weapons plant as part of Oak Ridge, Tennessee's annual Secret City Festival, which is being held this coming weekend. Although the plant is still associated with ongoing nuclear weapons work, members of the public will be permitted to see parts of the facility associated with its work on the Manhattan Project's 'Little Boy' bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The facility produced the uranium-235 which was used in the device using 1,152 massive calutrons across nine separate buildings in 1944 and 1945. 'Don't you know the people in Knoxville wondered what in the world was going on out here,' Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said on Monday. 'All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left.'"
"Nothing to see here, move along."
Scary in relevance to this.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
Sounds like it will be a bomb!
-Sj53
-20 lame, i know... someone had to say it though
Will the festival include a barbeque?
If some half-wit accidentally walks into a restricted area and gets hungry, they might accidently push the button marked "lunch."
if by tours you mean "try to run past the armed guards and if you make it more than 50ft, we'll call it a tour" then i'm sure they have.
;)
good luck getting in without a badge any time other than this event
- we all know the U235 came from the German sub U-234, originally destined for Japan. If it had made it there, the japs would have had the bomb first.
- atomic-program
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Japanese
"And you are dying so slowly, you believe to be living" - Bertrand Besigye
Looks like they're still trying to draw attention aways from the real issues like Roswell and The Kennedy Assassination. However I must be brief even as I type people are homing in on me, the only thing stopping them from finding me is my Aluminum headware.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
as a country you can't really afford to have everyone pissed off at you because you face things like international pressure, political sanctions and pre-emptive strikes
Tell me about it. I did a nuclear strike in Persia in Civ III, and suddenly everybody went bananas on me.
Watch out for suspicious looking teenagers joining your tour party and smuggling themselves onto the bus.
Party Time: Excellent
Even more relevant:
"America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization." -- John O'Hara
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