History in Five: The Manhattan Project’s Secret City

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Learn more about Girls of Atomic City at books.simonandschuster.com/The... The top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, became the center of the government's research to build an atomic bomb. Author Denise Kiernan, reveals the 5 things you should know about THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY.

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@sherryhoskins8771 2 жыл бұрын

My mother was recruited from high school. She was born and raised in a small community in Harlan, Kentucky. Oddly enough my son, her oldest grandson, was working for a trucking company that helped dispose of the hazardous waste when they dismantled the Y12 plant. She died at age 92.

@dbkyhere9229 2 жыл бұрын

Sherry Hoskins I wonder where they took the waste ?

@sherryhoskins8771 2 жыл бұрын

@@dbkyhere9229 If I recall correctly it was buried on site. I'll ask my son and see if it was different than I remember

@ashelybaldwin7014 3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother worked there. We're from S.C. She passed away when I was in 9th grade from cancer that I'm sure was from working here. I really wish I was mature enough at that time to think to ask her to tell me stories from their younger days during the war..her and my Papa too.

@GrannyGamer1 5 жыл бұрын

My mom was recruited out of high school. It was her 1st job. She sat on a stool all day at one of those consoles that looks kind of like an old telephone switchboard, monitoring dials and trying to keep them stabilized. One day, no matter what she did, she could NOT get the needles in the proper positions. Behind her, she heard a man say, "that's not how you do it." She was so exasperated, she jumped down off her stool and yelled, "well, if you can do it better, do it yourself!" The man got on the stool, went flick, turn turn, and the machine settled down. It wasn't 'til then she realized the guy had a very high security badge. She was sure the man would get her fired. Instead, he married her and I called him Dad.

@hobartborger5064 4 жыл бұрын

What a lovely story

@thetruthispotenza3602 4 жыл бұрын

Whats your dads name? Secret name and real name lol

@breath888 2 жыл бұрын

Coolest story ever!

@dbkyhere9229 2 жыл бұрын

Great love story!💕

@wythetrumpet6419 Жыл бұрын

The great women of WWII worked not only in Oak Ridge, but in the Ammunition Plants and factories that produced aircraft and military vehicles. The war could not have been won without these hard working wonderful ladies!

@GriffGardner1 4 жыл бұрын

Love the book. My grandmother is in the picture on the cover and in this video at the 3:26 mark. She was a Cal-U-Tron girl.

@annajames6341 Жыл бұрын

# 5. Dolly Parton’s mother met her dad when she was 15, and he was 26, they married in 90 days, had 10 children, and Dolly was # 8. # 6 While Dolly traveled on the road for singing lessons she meets her husband in 1960, he was captivated from, then and they married in 1969, their only son Terrance was born in 1974. Terrance married in 1992, and they gave birth to Dolly’s twin granddaughters in 2001, they are 20 years old now, and haven’t bore any children yet, the soon to be great grandma of Dolly Parton. Her and her husband are married for 51 years now.

@annajames6341 Жыл бұрын

# 4. At the age of 16, Dolly’s grandma Girtrude met Francis Temple at 21, Francis was captivated by her in 1909, they married a year later in 1910, at age 17, and 22. In 1913 they birthed Dolly’s mother Avia, in 1915, John was birthed by them, in 1916 Elizabeth was birthed by them, in 1919, Junior was born from them, after giving birth to Shirley in 1928, the couple gave themselves a break between 1929-1939. On a September of 1940, they gave birth to their last, another son who they named Bruce Lee Temple.

@annajames6341 Жыл бұрын

#3, Dolly Partons Grandmother was born in 1893, in Chicago Illinois, to her mother only 17, and her Father 29, Gertrude was the oldest out of 2 children.

@Hollergirlohio Жыл бұрын

I have a grandfather's cousin was recruited from John Hopkins university for the Manhattan project but was stationed in DC.

@tressarosenbarger6193 2 жыл бұрын

My aunt Tressa and uncle Newell Lived there for a long time we used to go visit she lived on Temple Road. I think she died in 94

@FeliciaFollum 2 жыл бұрын

We live in Richland WA, another one of the cities that was created as a part of the Manhattan Project. I'm looking to see if your book is on audio...

@jeffperkins3909 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your book ..A really wonderful family friend worked there ..got married there and had a child there in 1946 ..Kathleen died this year at age 96...I would often ask her questions and she would talk freely about her experience ..she had a degree in chemistry and probably worked in Y 12 ..I wish I had read the book before she died and I would have understood some of the discussions we had ..Thanks for the book ..You did a marvelous job ...Jeff

@billwebster5080 7 жыл бұрын

The Manhattan Project is without a doubt one of the greatest stories of all time. Regardless of one's views of the outcome, the science, drama, and the massive collaboration by literally thousands came together in a way that would be nearly impossible to duplicate. Although many are familiar with the climactic episode of developing and delivering the bomb; here is a whole different perspective on it as told by those who left their homes and families to live in a secluded unknown location, work on an unknown project in unknown facilities and performing strange tasks about which they had no clue. All that and they could not utter one word about it. How could they live that way? Denise's outstanding presentation of their side of things pulled me in immediately and I couldn't put it down. The result? A couple of very sleepy workdays! Highly recommended. Great job!

@Blackowl44 4 жыл бұрын

Greatest story of all time have you lost your mind???!

@Blackowl44 4 жыл бұрын

Think you mean evil*

@Blackowl44 4 жыл бұрын

They did all this to make a weapon to kill as many people as they could and mostly innocent civilians died in Hiroshima & Nagaski not the Japanese military

@michaeldoster4847 6 жыл бұрын

Nice job. Tasteful and well thoughtout. Very subtle commercial.

@tray1813 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if these ladies were exposed to things that were harmful to their health. My mother worked there during this period and she died at 42 of breast cancer. It was hard on me because I was only 13 when she passed away.

@ragingmoo157 5 жыл бұрын

T Ray sorry for your loss

@ashelybaldwin7014 3 жыл бұрын

Of course..I'm sure that's why my grandma died of cancer the year she retired..but she received the $150k from the class action lawsuit but since she had already died it was split between my dad and his 2 sisters, which were her children..this was only about 8-9 yrs ago.. please tell me you were aware of it. If not look into it for sure..each person working there got $150K settlement for being exposed unknowingly to radiation or whatever it was that causes cancer, which is what killed my grandma..bone cancer

@jahouser6273 3 жыл бұрын

T Ray My mother worked there and was diagnosed with MS at the age of 21. She spent 10 years in a nursing home,dying at 53. It was very hard all around, devastating for my family. The government let them down but that’s true on so many levels isn’t it.

@jahouser6273 3 жыл бұрын

ashely baldwin I knew nothing about this. Would be nice if it were still available. My mother suffered terribly.

@cecilbryan621 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they were and the government NEVER told them they were in danger. My Mother worked there and she died from lung cancer. Several years before she died she received a letter from the Gov't asking about any 'health issues.' We were paid a financial settlement because her cancer was the result of her working in an unsafe place that she did NOT know about.

@jojosaylor8996 7 жыл бұрын

Great Book I just checked this book out at my local library

@americanlibertas3726 6 жыл бұрын

My grandma (dad's mom) worked on the Manhattan Project out in Weldon Spring, Missouri. Died of some weird cancer later on along with everyone else who she was friends with and worked there.

@johnspass5332 3 жыл бұрын

Watching from Social Studies Class

@MrThailik 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video and beautiful presenter .

@heatherarthur6232 4 жыл бұрын

This maybe more important than we realized now in hindsight. .

@mrs.thomas-usmcwife5686 8 жыл бұрын

I have been trying to get information about my grandmother who worked there making parts and such, or at least that is the family story. She got very sick before I was born and spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital. She was unable to speak and we're not even sure how much she comprehended at the end of her life. Is it possible to find information about what she may have done while she was there?

@blancabianca4137 4 жыл бұрын

Mrs. Thomas search MK ULTRA

@sentrylevel 2 жыл бұрын

She was a test subject

@suewyatt146 6 жыл бұрын

My grandmother and her sister were the first 2 women my mom said started working there when they first open it she was from Harriman, Tenn my grandmother passed away from cancer at 57

@breath888 2 жыл бұрын

Way too young, I'm sorry. :(

@samhandique2631 3 жыл бұрын

Did u check the review of that bomb by any Japanese family?

@BlueKentuckyGirl 3 жыл бұрын

For the record - as it turned out, the processes researched at Oak Ridge were slow an enefficient and it was those developed at Los Alamos that went into the final product. Of course those who worked in Oak Ridge did not know that for many years, nor did the average worker - like my grandfather - know what their singular and independent role, undertaken as one piece of a larger whole, until after the bombs fell. Of course there was deep ambivalence. We did not know how it affected him until the week he died in early 1991, when the lymphoma and the medications administered to treat it had reduced his mind to a twighlight space between the past and present. He was often found that week pushing a dart down the hall, his mind back in Oak Ridge, performing his repetitive tasks with tears in his eyes. At the time of his death, my father, his only child, was in Japan, where he had a satellite office and a group of close friends with whom he enjoyed a close friendship until his death six years ago. The capacity for mutual understanding and forgiveness is possible, between both nations and between their citizens, continually cultivated with sustained intention, grounded in sincere good will and a genuine concern.

@jourwalis-8875 9 ай бұрын

Oak Ridge is that the same as "Los Alamos"?

@iiwonder6494 3 жыл бұрын

I live in the secret city

@Nyxzara 6 жыл бұрын

I am trying to find info on a woman named Alma Tallent, I came across a certificate of hers and it has Manhattan Project on it for Tennessee. I can't find anything on her, she may have been a teacher. My dad passed away and I inherited photos and the cert

@R.E.Z. 6 жыл бұрын

Karen I live in oak ridge I've been meaning to go to the library to learn a bit more about the history here, I'll keep an eye out and let you know if I find anything.

@michaelmole5435 5 жыл бұрын

How about it anything?

@gillypiexo 5 жыл бұрын

@@R.E.Z. anything??

@katebrown-schuh1278 Жыл бұрын

What About Wellston?! Missouri...

@annajames6341 Жыл бұрын

Dolly Parton Family History: #1-#2, The Greatest Grandparents that. Dolly Parton Could remember was that her greatest grandmother was born in 1848, and her greatest grandfather in 1844. They gave birth to her great grandma Elizabeth Maude in 1874, she was the youngest amongst 9 girls.

@calvincoolidge6944 4 жыл бұрын

"Secrecy and security dominated the landscape." and then the Rosenburgs showed up.

@mabuye 2 жыл бұрын

not a SINGLE mention of the source of that uranium which is CONGO!!!???

@andrewbowers_ 3 жыл бұрын

Girls are sooo cute when they do boy things. The girls assembling WW2 tanks and planes evolved into their granddaughters playing with guns and power tools. They’re so bloody cute!

@dinovelvet8933 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you need to do better research. Oak Ridge was not the headquarters of the MP.

@alexandraellenwalason3805 4 жыл бұрын

Was there a criteria that the government had while approaching these random people to come live in Los Alamos? They of course wanted younger people, I am just confused on how they picked the people to fill their city that they created!

@Blackowl44 4 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of the cia fbi nsa etc

@alexandraellenwalason3805 4 жыл бұрын

@@Blackowl44 lol yes... but why those specific people to fill the town?

@avacurtis2729 Жыл бұрын

Hello! My family is from there and generation have worked in these plants (before and after the war). In general for the lower labor positions (not scientists) they approached people in poverty who would ask minimal questions but be happy for a good factory job. Often right out of highschool or very young people

@BoomerBass523 2 жыл бұрын

I disagree with you that Oak Ridge was the “headquarters” of the Manhattan Project. All the decisions concerning Oak Ridge were made in Los Alamos, NM by Dr. Oppenheimer and from the DC office of General Groves. Oak Ridge was (and still is) a subordinate facility. Very few employees knew anything about the mission of the Manhattan Project and no policy decisions were made there. Your story of the women that worked there my be interesting from a human interest point of view but your introduction in this video is misleading and inaccurate.

@samanthamagee7588 Жыл бұрын

Just left Oak Ridge area ... because we broke down traveling home to Illinois I knew nothing about this and the local shop told me it WAS the largest and "Head Quarters" That how i found this video.... IDK

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

The heavens declare the glory of the Bomb, and the firmament showeth Its handiwork. Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

And now, i reveal my inmost self...

@garystorm6251 2 жыл бұрын

Please share the Love of the Son of God, He spoke Truth Forever. Please write His Words, in your Heart, and share them. Please Forgive, and Pray for everyone. Immanuel, God with us.

@milesarcher8502 4 жыл бұрын

Arguably the greatest single advance in science and technology, and what is this lady concerned with? What life was like for the WOMEN! Who wrote the book on what life was like for MEN? ANYBODY?

@breath888 2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty other videos that could satisfy you on KZfaq. With plenty of men in them. This is a 5 minute clip on what she wanted to talk about. No need to be so upset. :)

@jodythompson3165 6 жыл бұрын

Just like joining the military.. And boy what exploitation of innocence.. For both sid3s. Necessary? Not on your lives.

@dinovelvet8933 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@GKChandlerBooks 4 жыл бұрын

As interesting as the video is, I'm tired of presenters not speaking directly to the camera. It's distracting and serves no useful purpose. Why producers/editors decided this was worth doing eludes me.