Sandra reviewed The atomic city girls by Janet Beard
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3 stars
3 1/2 stars
The plot itself was kind of predictable but the setting was very interesting. I don't know why not, but I never knew they built up a whole secret city, Oak Ridge Tennessee, to manufacture the raw materials for the first atomic bomb during WWII. I never heard of this city and never even gave much thought about how much work went into building this bomb... How the workers (mostly local women) were sworn to secrecy and had no idea what the work they were doing was actually to enrich uranium for the new bomb. They just thought they were "turning knobs" on a control board. So yeah, that part of the story, and it was kind of the main part, was enlightening.