Building Bombs

7/3/2026

When Uncle Sam teams up with the giant DuPont chemical company to start building the United States' nuclear arsenal, they need somewhere expansive but remote enough to construct their plant. They alight on a huge tract of land in South Carolina and then promptly dispossess the people who'd lived near the town of Aiken for decades. This site also benefitted from having the Savannah river on it's doorstep and so within a matter of months an huge industrial site stood where once there were farms and small villages. It wasn't all bad news at the time as the company were hiring, and they were paying well for those involved in the construction and then subsequent management of this vast complex. Thing is, though, this wasn't just a place where the bombs were built, it was an also an experimental