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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Freeman, Lindsey A.
Titre(s) : This atom bomb in me [Texte imprimé] / Lindsey A. Freeman
Publication : Stanford, California : Redwood Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (120 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 21 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119)
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
Sujet(s) : Industrie nucléaire -- Société -- Oak Ridge (Tenn., États-Unis) -- 1970-....
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels
Indice(s) Dewey :
301.092 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie - Biographie ; 976.8 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Tennessee
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781503606890. - ISBN 1503606899. - ISBN 9781503607798 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458155877
Notice n° :
FRBNF45815587
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