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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.'"
Nope, you would be thinking of the festival celebrating that other great American contribution to warfare - napalm. Coming soon to the Harvard Napalm Festival.
Dontcha just love the smell of burnt baby flesh in the morning?
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
IMO the US can build as many nukes as they want.
Why is it considered bad for a warmongering dictator (Saddam) to have weapons of mass destruction whilest it's ok for a warmongering dictator (Bush) to have weapons of mass destruction?
http://blog.nexusuk.org
What else could a reasonable observer conclude about their point of view? Every time anything is wrong in the world, it must be the US's fault.
big lifetime achievment of developing more and more weapons and mankind developing more and more evil feelings and actions towards each other...
... the only thing mankind brought to perfection
big news, mankind is more savage than ever before...
you can really be proud. humanity doesnt deserve any better.
kill kill kill
Do whiney self important people who say such things even know the true definitions of the words they use?
If the US was really decadant we would have not stopped with bombing two Japanese cities.
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You are a complete idiot. Please go away.