The Girls Of Atomic City

The Untold Story Of The Women Behind The Bomb

'The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II', a book by Denise Kiernan, tells the story of the Oak Ridge center of the Manhattan Project.

Oak Ridge was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project, a town of 70,000 workers - primarily women - who lived in a camp-like environment of propaganda, barbed wire, checkpoints, code words, and spies, while working a thousand different jobs, all of which contributed to the events of August 6, 1945 and the dropping of the atomic bomb.