Oak Ridge, a small city in Tennessee, had played a vital role in the development of the world's first nuclear weapons.
The so called 'Secret City' was the epicenter of the Manhattan Project, the American-led effort to build an atomic bomb.
The site scouted in Oak Ridge had ideal conditions for the military's plan: remote location and the perfect population size.
Oak Ridge was established in 1942 as the Manhattan Project started, it was a massive joint effort of American, British and Canadian forces to build and develop the atomic bomb.
Isolationism was the policy that kept them from joining the League of Nations. Isolationism is when a group stays away from or ignores all people in that group. Mainly political matters of other countries.
