Also during 1942, the Manhattan District of the Corps of Engineers was formed to construct three secret "cities" for major portions of atomic bomb development. At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear ...

As more nuclear firms move in, Oak Ridge is trying to overcome its status as an all work, no play company town.

So, what would happen if a bomb dropped on the nuclear hub that is Oak Ridge, Tennessee? What if that ... on a sprawling weapons "modernization" project that could cost more than $1.7 trillion.

To the ambling Oak ... Project. At its peak in 1945, Oak Ridge was home to 75,000 people who came from across the region to work on the secretive mission to beat Nazi Germany to the atomic bomb.