It’s been referred to as, “A place that didn’t exist”, but its secluded location was the very thing that made it possible for the U.S. government to carry out a secret project between the ridges and valleys later to be officially named Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This rural and agricultural area grew from a population of about 3000 to a workforce of 75,000 to complete The Manhattan Project, and literally saved the world, engulfed in war, in 1945. “It’s in Oak Ridge, it’s called Th