Lindsey A Freeman
Author
Publisher
Redwood Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge...