How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

(via Atlas Obscura) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, once home to 75,000, went up fast and under the radar. But it was built to last, too.  But Oak Ridge isn’t like most of the country’s other suburbs. The town was conceived and built by the United States government in the early 1940s as base for uranium and plutonium work, as part of the Manhattan Project.