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The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II / Denise Kiernan.

Summary:

This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it did not appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II, it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South.

Record details

ISBN: 9781451617528
Physical Description: xvii, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Touchstone Book"
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-347) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Revelation, August 1945 -- Everything will be taken care of : train to nowhere, August 1943. Tubealloy : the Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942 -- Peaches and pearls : the taking of Site X, Fall 1942. Tubealloy : Ida and the atom, 1934 -- Through the gates : Clinton Engineer Works, Fall 1943. Tubealloy : Lise and fission, 1938 -- Bull pens and creeps : the Project's welcome for new employees. Tubealloy : Leona and success in Chicago, December 1942 -- Only temporary : spring into Summer, 1944. Tubealloy : the quest for product -- To work. Tubealloy : the couriers -- Rhythms of life. Tubealloy : Security, censorship, and the press -- The one about fireflies. Tubealloy : pumpkins, spies, and chicken soup, Fall 1944 -- The unspoken : sweethearts and secrets. Tubealloy : combining efforts in the New Year -- Curiosity and silence. Tubealloy : the project's crucial spring -- Innocence lost. Tubealloy : hope and the haberdasher, April-May 1945 -- Sand jumps in the desert, July 1945 -- The gadget revealed -- Dawn of a thousand suns -- Life in the new age.