Ray Smith

HistorianTrinity Site

Oak Ridge, TNY-12 Plant

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Listen to Ray Smith’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Ray Smith is the historian at the Y-12 National Security Complex. His specific focus is the history of Oak Ridge, and he is intimately acquainted with the uranium enrichment processes undertaken at the Y-12, K-25, and S-50 plants during the Manhattan Project, and how the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs worked.

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