The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
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Page Public Library - Non-Fiction
355.8251 KIERNAN, D 2013
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355.8251 KIERNAN, D 2013
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- Interviews.
Women employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- Interviews.
Women employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
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Book
Physical Desc
xvii, 373 pages : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Touchstone Book"
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kiernan, D. (2013). The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II (1st Touchstone hardcover ed.). Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kiernan, Denise. 2013. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kiernan, Denise. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Simon & Schuster, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kiernan, Denise. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 1st Touchstone hardcover ed., Simon & Schuster, 2013.
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