My great-grandfather worked on the plumbing for Oak Ridge when it was being built for the Manhattan Project

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RL — 11/10/2020 11:52:45 PM (archived)

My Grandfather said that it was an open secret that they were working on a superweapon... not sure how much truth there is to that, and how much was recollection colored by hindsight...

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I'm tired of talking about this. It is just too painful to contemplate any more. - ER - 11/6/2020 11:30:29 AM
- And I disagree - Vitruvius - 11/7/2020 10:05:47 PM
  - This is how some Germans repented - podrock - 11/9/2020 3:27:22 AM
    - And that's a good thing. - Vitruvius - 11/15/2020 9:03:05 AM
      - They were forced to dig graves. - podrock - 11/16/2020 3:38:42 AM
        
        Can I have your sources? - Vitruvius - 11/16/2020 5:43:17 AM
        
        The audio of the second clip - podrock - 11/16/2020 7:19:35 PM
    - My great uncle liberated some of the camps... - RL - 11/9/2020 11:37:47 PM
      - Wow. - podrock - 11/10/2020 11:07:01 PM
        
        My great-grandfather worked on the plumbing for Oak Ridge when it was being built for the Manhattan Project - RL - 11/10/2020 11:52:45 PM
        
        Open Secrets - podrock - 11/11/2020 12:53:23 AM
        
        I lived and worked in Oak Ridge for over a year, back in the 1970s. - ER - 11/11/2020 12:49:11 AM
        
        I spent a day in Los Alamos, in 1980. - podrock - 11/18/2020 1:22:26 AM
        
        ...In that order? - RL - 11/18/2020 1:55:49 AM
        
        yes - podrock - 11/18/2020 2:08:37 AM
        
        Rather extreme form of birth control... - RL - 11/18/2020 2:17:55 AM
        
        No problems in that way. - podrock - 11/18/2020 2:44:55 AM
  - I guess I just take human rights, attacks on our democracy, and the homicide of hundreds of thousands of Americans a bit more seriously than you... - RL - 11/8/2020 9:01:06 PM
    - An Analogy - RL - 11/9/2020 1:59:24 AM
      - another - podrock - 11/9/2020 4:21:40 AM
- Colbert, last night, - podrock - 11/6/2020 5:07:01 PM
  - Beautiful. I liked the Benito reference . . . - DanS - 11/7/2020 8:06:55 PM
  - Wow... he learned at the feet of a master - RL - 11/6/2020 5:18:51 PM

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