The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Wilkinson, Paul, 116, 218–19
Dot’s marriage to, 216, 217–18
Williams, Hal, 145
Wiltrout, Glen, 112
wine, 143–44
Winnie the Pooh (Milne), 76
Women’s Air Corps (WAC), 111–12, 155
Women’s National Press Club, 294
Wood, Nancy Farley, 288
Woods, Leona, xiv, 75–78
World Set Free, The (Wells), ix
World’s Fair, 113
World War II, 5–6, 25–26, 133–34, 151, 185, 238, 272
B-29s in, 230, 252
end of, 272–73, 299
in Europe, end of, 227–30
news of, 133–34
in Pacific, 134, 230, 238; see also Japan Pearl Harbor, 56, 154, 250, 253, 273, 308
Statement of Availability employment program during, 84, 87, 168
X
X-10 plant, xvi, 29, 53, 83–84, 100, 196, 259, 278, 279
construction of, 100
name of, 105
as scientific research facility, 295
X-rays, 279
Y
Yamada, Kisetsu, 307
Y-12 plant, xiii, xvi, 29, 68, 83–84, 100, 187, 191, 192, 203–4, 205–6, 243, 247, 259, 300, 301, 302, 311, 313, 314
accident at, 206
adding machines at, 119–20, 247, 301
basketball team of, 141
calutron cubicle operators at, 103, 109, 112–17, 120, 189, 262
clerks at, 119–22
closing of, 277, 295
codes used at, 119
construction of, 100
cost of, 206
electromagnetic separation process at, 101, 102–5, 106, 109, 192
name of, 105
scale of operations at, 104, 105, 106, 119
York, Ken, 180–81
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Principal Cast of Characters
Map—Clinton Engineer Works, Tennessee, 1943–1945
Revelation, August 1945
1: EVERYTHING WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF : TRAIN TO NOWHERE, AUGUST 1943
Tubealloy: The Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942
2: PEACHES AND PEARLS: THE TAKING OF SITE X, FALL 1942
Tubealloy: Ida and the Atom, 1934
3: THROUGH THE GATES: CLINTON ENGINEER WORKS, FALL 1943
Tubealloy: Lise and Fission, 1938
4: BULL PENS AND CREEPS: THE PROJECT’S WELCOME FOR NEW EMPLOYEES
Tubealloy: Leona and Success in Chicago, December 1942
5: ONLY TEMPORARY: SPRING INTO SUMMER, 1944
Tubealloy: The Quest for Product
6: TO WORK
Tubealloy: The Couriers
7: RHYTHMS OF LIFE
Tubealloy: Security, Censorship, and the Press
8: THE ONE ABOUT THE FIREFLIES . . .
Tubealloy: Pumpkins, Spies, and Chicken Soup, Fall 1944
9: THE UNSPOKEN: SWEETHEARTS AND SECRETS
Tubealloy: Combining Efforts in the New Year
10: CURIOSITY AND SILENCE
Tubealloy: The Project’s Crucial Spring
11: INNOCENCE LOST
Tubealloy: Hope and the Haberdasher, April–May 1945
12: SAND JUMPS IN THE DESERT, JULY 1945
13: THE GADGET REVEALED
14: DAWN OF A THOUSAND SUNS
15: LIFE IN THE NEW AGE
Epilogue
Photographs
Reading Group Guide
About Denise Kiernan
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index