Famously, the people working in Oak Ridge, as in the other "secret cities" of the Manhattan Project, had only the vaguest idea of what they were working on. But when America dropped its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the people of Oak Ridge knew that it was their doing.
They celebrated. They danced on the tennis courts all night long.
They knew they'd done the morally right and heroic thing.
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