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This Atom Bomb in Me (Paperback)
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This Atom Bomb in Me (Paperback)
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List price R608
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You Save R106 (17%)
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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 contains
the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The
granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a
critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent
as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to
nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear
prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny
childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear
culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender
and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history,
reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our
tense nuclear present.
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