The much-anticipated “Oppenheimer” movie is in theatres.
It’s a war drama about the development of the atomic bomb in World War II which has ties to East Tennessee.
August 6th and 9th, 1945 are two of the most notable days in American war history. Those were the days the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people, essentially ending World War II.
The Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge was one of three places that worked on the atomic bomb with all three sites having different roles in developing that bomb.
