Summary Of The Girls Of Atomic City By Denise Kiernan

The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan is a book about the young girls that helped win World War Two. The book is based in 1942 in a rural area in east Tennessee. This city that was picked was rid of all of its current residents when the US government purchased all of that land. The town “Atomic City” was named Oak Ridge. The town of Oak Ridge stretched for a total of 59,000 acres. Within a short time of only nine months, the US government built a secret city that didn’t appear on any map. The purpose of this facility was simple yet so advanced. “On occasion, people who tried to write family members living at Site X by addressing the letters to “Oak Ridge” got those letters returned to sender with a note reading simply: “There is no such

Workers cannot enter the facility without proper ID, which was taken extremely serious. There was extreme secrecy among this place, with only a handful of people actually knowing what was taking place there. In fact, if you were to question the job you were doing or what you were doing, you were dismissed and evicted. Due to the war, there was a shortage of male workers, so the workers were predominantly female. They were paid pretty well for their work, but placed into dormitories or trailers. For African-American workers it was different. They were crammed into little “hutments” only 256-square-foot for four people. Each hutment contained a small stove in the middle of it. This town had houses but those were reserved for families. Although the workers were

Some people say it was necessary to do to win the war, while others disagree and believe that we could have won the war without the use of atomic bombs. With quotes from Dwight Eisenhower, General then President and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, saying, “The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” (Dwight Eisenhower) The great scientist Albert Einstein said that if he didn’t recommend