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1) Socioeconomic assessment: partial closure of the Paducah Uranium Enrichment Facility, final report
Publisher
Technical Information Center
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings.) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months--a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions...
Publisher
Y-12 History Center
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From our hidden past: In the 1940s the Manhattan Project's Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant emerged from a quiet farming community in the Bear Creek Valley of East Tennessee. This facility, known as Y-12, provided the uranium 235 for Little Boy, the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare. Those early years of huge magnets, long hours and 22,000 people working in secrecy brought an end to the world's most deadly war, as predicted by John Hendrix,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This story of the virus that destroyed Iran's nuclear centrifuges, by top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter, shows that the door has been opened on a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb dropped from an airplane"--
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