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...article, "The Masked Marvel," has jogged me uncomfortably. I never dreamed that such a fantastic empire existed. Sure, I was aware that there were a couple of dozen highly skilled scientists working out all the intricate problems of atomic research somewhere, and I had heard of the Oak Ridge plant and have been vaguely aware of other aspects of the work, but I never realized that it was such a huge project...
...Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...great plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which separates Uranium 235 from natural uranium, is still going strong as in wartime. In fact, it is going stronger. The process has been improved so much that the plant's executives smile smugly about it. A new building, added to the three old ones, has a roof area as big as 16 football fields. Production, is being expanded still more at a cost of $200 million...
...case of research and development, this was not always true. There was a period after the war when U.S. scientists were almost boycotting AEC laboratories. Part of their hostility was due to the very real hardships of wartime life at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Probably more important was a widespread feeling of revulsion. The scientists had worked with fanatical fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime...