The Girls of Atomic City

Denise Kiernan 2013

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
WWII atomic bomb women secrecy

Our Take

Young women lived and worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee helping build something they were forbidden to ask about. When the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, they found out what. Kiernan traces the collision of patriotism and complicity in women who were used by their government and still proud of the work.

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