Ted Talks: The Girls of Atomic City
How the Atomic Bomb Came to Fruition
An Introduction
-Women are the focus
-Secretive nature of the book
-Denise Kiernan spent days trying to make sure her information was correct.
The Major Themes
The Secretiveness
"Tubealloy was why Celia's job existed, though she knew no more about it than the average New Yorker bumping and bustling past her..." Pg. 10
The Women
"Without them, this sun-snaring- this Manhattan Project-would not have achieved its objectives, and because of them a new age was born that would have changed the world forever." Pg. xv
The Inequality
"We don't in matriculate engineering as a major for females" Pg. 44
How does this relate to our lives
-The knowledge interwoven into the text i.e. (57-62)
- The sexism against women (48)
The dropping of the A-bomb affected history enough(see the link above). But the story of how it was to be and how the women affected it is truly a part of history you need to know.