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008			130521s2013 sp- 00 eng
020			_a9781451617528
082	0		_a976.873 KIE
100	1		_aKiernan, Denise
245	1	1	_aThe girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II _c/ Denise Kiernan
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c2013.
300			_axvii, 373 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill., map _c; 24 cm.
500			_a"A Touchstone book.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-347) and index.
520			_aTHE GIRLS OF ATOMIC C ITY 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 small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed. Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties-- The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _z-United States
650		4	_aUranium enrichment
650		4	_aWomen employees
650		4	_aOfficial secrets _x--United States
651		4	_aOak Ridge (Tenn.) _v--Biography
942			_cMO
999			_c271209 _d271209