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title: "findlight:August, 1945. A billboard at Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee warns people to keep silent about anything they see or hear there. Oak Ridge was a town built in 1942 to house workers and the laboratory that developed the Manhattan Project – the secret second world war program that built the atomic bomb. [G]"
date: 2018-04-19 02:22:32 +00
tags: tumblr
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![mirrored image from https://66.media.tumblr.com/a1206a6bd6c4688e2bfb7269d12201bc/tumblr_mrofn5xfCW1r4xfawo1_1280.jpg without alt text, sorry](./173081530818.jpg)

[findlight](http://findlight.tumblr.com/post/74053866817/august-1945-a-billboard-at-oak-ridge-facility-in):

> August, 1945. A billboard at Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee warns people to keep silent about anything they see or hear there. Oak Ridge was a town built in 1942 to house workers and the laboratory that developed the Manhattan Project – the secret second world war program that built the atomic bomb. \[[G](http://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2013/aug/13/manhattan-project-photography)\]

April 18th, 2018 7:22pm