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Publisher
Y-12 History Center
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From our hidden past: In the 1940s the Manhattan Project's Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant emerged from a quiet farming community in the Bear Creek Valley of East Tennessee. This facility, known as Y-12, provided the uranium 235 for Little Boy, the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare. Those early years of huge magnets, long hours and 22,000 people working in secrecy brought an end to the world's most deadly war, as predicted by John Hendrix,...
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