FROM IVORY TOWER TO CASTLE: HOW SCIENTISTS ARE HELPING THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH SOLVING CRIME

摘要

In the early 1940s, a large parcel of Tennessee farmland was appropriated by the U.S. Government, and on the land several facilities instrumental to the success of the secret Manhattan project were built. Almost overnight, small communities near Knoxville, Tennessee, became part of a massive restricted government reservation. Families were forced to relocate, and former family farms sprouted large buildings filled with equipment used for isotope separation. Into what was left of the communities moved a vast cadre of outsiders whose task was to produce the enriched uranium for the wartime effort. This new town became known as Oak Ridge, named for the oak trees abundant on the town's ridges, and few vestiges of the old communities were preserved.