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Kiernan, Denise.
Subjects
Women employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- Interviews.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.
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Kiernan, Denise.
Women employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- Interviews.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.
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The
girls
of
Atomic
City
: the
untold
story
of the
women
who
helped
win
World
War
II
/ Denise Kiernan.
by
Kiernan, Denise.
Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Call #:
976.873 K47g
Subjects
Women
employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
Women
-- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- Interviews.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World
War
, 1939-1945 --
Women
-- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781451617528 (hardcover)
1451617526 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Description:
xvii, 373 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A Touchstone Book"
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-347) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
In this book the author traces the
story
of the unsung
World
War
II
workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving
women
and other Oak Ridge residents. 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. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships, and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men. But against this wartime backdrop, a darker
story
was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work, even the most innocuous details, was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the
atomic
bomb. Though the young
women
originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the
war
, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there, work they did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today.
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