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Ellenton, South Carolina. President Harry S. Truman, alarmed by the growing power of Russia and fearing the advent of World War III, approved the selection of a site in South Carolina along the Savannah River for the production of the world's most destructive weapon, the hydrogen bomb. Three hundred square miles were earmarked for the site and all residents within its perimeter were evicted and the buildings and houses of two small villages and one incorporated town leveled - Ellenton, South Car