The girls of Atomic City [book discussion kit] : [a talk tote for book discussion groups] etc. : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

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Title:

The girls of Atomic City [book discussion kit] : [a talk tote for book discussion groups] etc. : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

Author:

Kiernan, Denise, author.

Personal Author:

Kiernan, Denise, author.

Edition:

First Touchstone paperback edition.

Physical Description:

xxi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. + resource guide + black tote.

General Note:

12 items in black tote bag + resource guide.

"A Touchstone Book"

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.

Abstract:

Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

Corporate Subject:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.

Subject Term:

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.

Book discussion kit.

Geographic Term:

Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.

Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.

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