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The Girls Of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War II (2013)

by Denise Kiernan(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451617526 (ISBN13: 9781451617528)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

review 1: Enjoyable read. Only parts I didn't like were the extreme scientific chapters on "tubealloy." It's fascinating that people worked on this project and had no idea what they were creating. The sheer number of people (75,000) to run Oak Ridge during the creation of the atomic bomb was incredible. Good read if you like history. While it all took place during WWII, there are only touches here and there of the war.
review 2: When FDR ok'd the project to develop the atomic bomb, he had several problems, how to keep the project secret & secure, where to built the complex to house the project & where to find the personnel able to run the project. This book covers all of this, but in particular how the military ran the project & was able to recruit & train mostly young w... moreomen recently graduated from HS in small rural areas. less

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