Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Dedication
Introduction
Principal Cast of Characters
Map—Clinton Engineer Works, Tennessee, 1943–1945
Revelation, August 1945
Chapter 1: Everything Will Be Taken Care Of: Train to Nowhere, August 1943
Tubealloy: The Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942
Chapter 2: Peaches and Pearls: The Taking of Site X, Fall 1942
Tubealloy: Ida and the Atom, 1934
Chapter 3: Through the Gates: Clinton Engineer Works, Fall 1943
Tubealloy: Lise and Fission, 1938
Chapter 4: Bull Pens and Creeps: The Project’S Welcome for New Employees
Tubealloy: Leona and Success in Chicago, December 1942
Chapter 5: Only Temporary: Spring Into Summer, 1944
Tubealloy: The Quest for Product
Chapter 6: To Work
Tubealloy: The Couriers
Chapter 7: Rhythms of Life
Tubealloy: Security, Censorship, and the Press
Chapter 8: The One About the Fireflies . . .
Tubealloy: Pumpkins, Spies, and Chicken Soup, Fall 1944
Chapter 9: The Unspoken: Sweethearts and Secrets
Tubealloy: Combining Efforts in the New Year
Chapter 10: Curiosity and Silence
Tubealloy: The Project’s Crucial Spring
Chapter 11: Innocence Lost
Tubealloy: Hope and the Haberdasher, April–May 1945
Chapter 12: Sand Jumps in the Desert, July 1945
Chapter 13: The Gadget Revealed
Chapter 14: Dawn of a Thousand Suns
Chapter 15: Life in the New Age
Epilogue
Photographs
Reading Group Guide
About Denise Kiernan
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →