of the greatest scientific - industrial undertaking of the 20th century, the Manhattan Project. That story still lives in the memories of the people who built and worked in the great laboratories and factories that rose between the ridges of east Tennessee, those who lived in a planned community erected in haste to house tens of thousands and those displaced, the people who came and then moved on, and those who came and stayed. The story also resides in the physical legacy of the project, the buildings that remain, the photographs and records, the greenbelts along the ridge, the remnants of the scientific tools and processes at K-25, Y-12, and X-10.* We will lose a little more of the story every day unless we act now to preserve and honor it.
