The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451617542
- ISBN: 1451617542
- ISBN: 9781451617528
- ISBN: 1451617526
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits - Edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Touchstone Book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Revelation, August 1945 -- Everything will be taken care of: train to nowhere, August 1943 : Tubealloy: the Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942 -- Peaches and pearls: the taking of Site X, Fall 1942 : Tubealloy: Ida and the atom, 1934 -- Through the gates: Clinton Engineer Works, Fall 1943 : Tubealloy: Lise and fission, 1938 -- Bull pens and creeps: the Project's welcome for new employees : Tubealloy: Leona and success in Chicago, December 1942 -- Only temporary: spring into Summer, 1944 : Tubealloy: the quest for product -- To work : Tubealloy: the couriers -- Rhythms of life : Tubealloy: Security, censorship, and the press -- The one about fireflies : Tubealloy: pumpkins, spies, and chicken soup, Fall 1944 -- The unspoken: sweethearts and secrets : Tubealloy: combining efforts in the New Year -- Curiosity and silence : Tubealloy: the project's crucial spring -- Innocence lost : Tubealloy : hope and the haberdasher, April-May 1945 -- Sand jumps in the desert, July 1945 -- The gadget revealed -- Dawn of a thousand suns -- Life in the new age. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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