The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II By Denise Kiernan

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Now a New York Times Bestseller!The incredible 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 didn't 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 vibrant 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 didn't fully understand at the time--are still being felt today. In The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan traces the astonishing story of these unsung WWII workers through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this is history and science made fresh and vibrant--a beautifully told, deeply researched story that unfolds in a suspenseful and exciting way. As heard on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition.One of Goodreads' Most Popular Books of March 2013.One of Amazon's Editors' Picks for Best Books of the Month (History)One of Amazon's Editors' Picks for Best Books of the Month (Nonfiction)One of Amazon's Big Spring Books (History)

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This book chronicles the development of and life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from 1943 on; it also describes technical aspects of the development of the atomic bomb. As you all know, the United States as of this writing, June 16 2018, remains the only country to use nuclear weapons in actual warfare; one atomic bomb was dropped on each of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August of 1945. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly and many more died later. The United States was in a race against Germany and perhaps other countries to develop the bomb first. The book describes the lives, the secrecy, the buildings, the frenetic pace, and more aspects of the tens of thousands of people who worked at Oak Ridge and on the bomb with a focus on women. It is well written and compelling, especially up to the date of the bomb's use. After that, while still enjoyable and interesting, the page-turning aspect of the book diminished somewhat. The {Project, as the Manhattan Project was known, was compartmentalized with the aim of telling people only enough to do their jobs well and nothing more. The book also is compartmentalized, with chapters about the women's lives and the development of Oak Ridge interspersed with chapters on "Tuballoy," as uranium was called. The book focuses in particular on a handful of women, whose lives and work it follows in some detail. The book touches on the discrimination of black people and even the use of one black man as a guinea pig to test how plutonium moved through the human body and could be detected, but does not spend a great deal of time on it. I found the book quite absorbing and learned much from it; it meshes with other books on that era, some focused on the Trinity Site (where the bomb was tested), others focused on Los Alamos, where much of the work on the bomb was done as well (for example, '109 Palace Avenue"). In addition, I spent some time in Oak Ridge, including working at what was then called (and still is now) the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it was additionally interesting for me to read about people and places I had known. I do recommend this book. It lost a star, however, for some careless editing (e.g., "due" for "do," "site" for "sight") and for a few unfortunate content errors that aren't important enough to affect the book's main messages.

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