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Description: In a photo by Ed Westcott, residents of Oak Ridge, TN, fill Jackson Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan. Oak Ridge was one of the three main sites of the Manhattan Project, and was responsible (though those working there did not know it) for refining uranium to be shipped to Los Alamos to be fashioned into atomic bombs.
Title: War Ends
Credit: Ed Westcott / American Museum of Science and Energy
Author: Ed Westcott / US Army / Manhattan Engineer District
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