Friday, January 29, 2010

Proposed Manhattan Project National Park stirring debate over locations

The National Park Service is working on a draft of a new national park to commemorate the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb that ended World War II. One option of the plan is to establish the official park site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where displays would acknowledge the contributions of other cities such as Hanford, Washington, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Residents of Oak Ridge, however, believe that their city deserves a park site as well. Watch this video to learn more.

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