from nbmars

In 1943 the U.S. Government began a massive recruiting program to gather workers for top-secret facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. There, uranium would be enriched to fuel the atom bomb being developed in New Mexico. Project organizers determined that the ideal workers would be young high school...

from BookConcierge

Audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell From the book jacket: At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from...

from Pattymclpn

Today's book is The Girls of Atomic City. This is a new book recently released from Touchstone Books of Simon and Schuster Co.. I obtained it for free from NetGalley. This is a true story about the secret community established in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II. Oak Ridge is hidden in th...

from BellaFoxx

If I were to say Los Alamos or The Manhattan Project, most people would know what I was talking about. If I were to say Hanford, WA or Oakridge, TN fewer people would know what I was referring to. This website about Los Alamos, New Mexico mentions both places briefly. What it doesn't tell you is ...

from gypsysmom

I'm not sure how I first heard about this book but as soon as I had I decided to read it. After visitng Los Alamos a few years ago I have been fascinated by how such a mega-project as developing the first atomic bomb was kept secret. This book tells the story of Oak Ridge, Tennessee which was the...