Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists, who possessed the same knowledge, went ahead and developed the necessary "devices": the plutonium piles at Hanford, Wash, and the U-235 separation plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Germans tried rather feebly and failed. The Russians, so far as is known, did not try at all until after the war. To start their bomb project, they did not have to wait for spy-gathered information or for the famous Smyth Report. The basic "secrets" were already in their files...