Half-life of a secret reckoning with a hidden history /

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"In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them were author Emi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Strasser, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2023.
Subjects:
Strasser, George Albert, > 1918-1984.
Strasser, Emily > Family.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory > Employees > Biography.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory > History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1900-1999
Atomic bomb > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons industry > Environmental aspects > Tennessee.
Nuclear industry > Employees > Health and hygiene > Tennessee > Oak Ridge.
Chemists > United States > Biography.
Atomic bomb > Social aspects.
Chemists.
Employees.
Families.
Nuclear industry > Employees > Health and hygiene.
Nuclear weapons industry > Environmental aspects.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) > Biography.
Tennessee.
Tennessee > Oak Ridge.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Fire
  • 2. Ash
  • 3. Still Burning
  • 4. Homeplace
  • 5. Kin
  • 6. Countdown
  • 7. Restricted Data
  • 8. Lying
  • 9. Practicing for Doomsday
  • 10. Fusion
  • 11. Phantom
  • 12. Talking
  • 13. Half-Life
  • 14. Mercury
  • 15. Bombed without a Bang
  • 16. Hiroshima
  • 17. Sirens.

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