Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game
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The Joker and the Los Alamos Bomb
The other two main sites were in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. The smaller sites were located in 13 other cities across the United States. Also had a couple in Canada and one in England. Los Alamos alone would start with the population of about 3500 in a town that already included a school, a laundry,. libraries, a movie theater, bachelor apartments. They have barbers, two restaurants, a vet and a bar. And this was all there when they showed up - although they did vastly underestimate the resources they would need.
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