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Podcast: Big Bertha Drum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 31, 2021
The House at Otowi Bridge
San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico

House at Otowi Bridge

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.
Fuller Lodge Art Center
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Fuller Lodge Art Center

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.
The B-1 Flat Top at the American Museum of Science and Energy.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

B-1 Flat Top in Oak Ridge

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.
A type "H" house, photographed in the 1940s.
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How the Manhattan Project's Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, once home to 75,000, went up fast and under the radar. But it was built to last, too.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 3, 2018
Charlotte Serber, Los Alamos ID photo .
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The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project's Secrets

While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible.
Michael Waters June 23, 2017
Raw thorium. Good for your teeth or fuel for Hitler's bombs?
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The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

Manhattan Project experts got sidetracked in their pursuit of Nazi nuclear technology.
Eric Grundhauser May 5, 2017
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The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of Chicago

Chicago Pile-1, the first reactor to reach criticality, was built under a football field.
Eric Grundhauser July 27, 2016
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New App Explores the Secret Development Location of the First Atomic Bombs

Take a virtual tour of Los Alamos Laboratory, home of the Manhattan Project.
Atlas Obscura June 15, 2016
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How a Midwestern Potato Farm Became the World's First Nuclear Waste Site

One company in St. Louis produced nearly all the uranium used in the Manhattan Project.
Atlas Obscura March 15, 2016
Chicago, Illinois

'Nuclear Energy'

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.
Nye County, Nevada

Sedan Crater

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
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Dorothy McKibbin: The Manhattan Project's Secret Weapon

Eric Grundhauser June 12, 2015
Santa Fe, New Mexico

109 East Palace

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Willow Springs, Illinois

Red Gate Woods

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge "The Secret City"

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Nye County, Nevada

Atomic Survival Town

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
New York, New York

Site of Columbia University's Nuclear Reactor

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.