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Even though fences remained in place and entry into the city was gained only by use of passes until 1949, an effort was made to normalize life in Oak Ridge after World War II. An example of such is seen in this photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Tirpak who…

“The Beginning or the End,” a docudrama about the development of the first atomic bombs, was a big attraction at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge in March 1947.

The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's…