This was a completely fascinating book about Oak Ridge Tennessee, which was created from scratch in 1942 as a "secret city" where the uranium was "enriched" for use in the atomic bombs used at the end of WWII - the Manhattan Project. At its peak, Oak Ridge was a town of 75,000, where a number of workers were women since much of the U.S. male workforce were in the war. Workers at Oak Ridge had little idea what they were doing, told only enough to do their individual job, and forbidden to talk with others or outside family or friends about any details except that they were helping the war effort. I think the book could have been better written - pace is slow in places and too fast in others - but the content is a part of American history that I knew very little about. Worth a read! This is very "compartmentalized" as the beginning of the book...warns? claims? So much so that I got lost in the cast of characters. The women of Atomic City, the physicists, the code names of the plants and the bombs and everything else. I don't feel like I learned much...except perhaps how ridiculously muddy it was and how shoddy the housing was. I'm not sure why as I didn't actually care enough to look, but the Kindle book ended at about 67%. Maybe there was an excerpt of another book? Whatever. I don't really recommend this book unless you know nothing about this particular time in our history.
What do You think about Dziewczyny Atomowe (2013)?
Interesting inside accounts from the bomb makers who didn't know.
—RayRay
Very interesting history. Knew very little, learned a lot.
—musicophil
