The girls of Atomic City / Kiernan, Denise

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee had thousands of residents and consumed more electricity than New York City. Young women from small towns across America were enticed to come there by war-ending work and solid wages. Kept in the dark about the true nature of their work they would not find out the secret until the end of the war. The women of Oak Ridge, also known as Atomic City to a select few, were indispensable to the winning of World War II. Tens of thousands of women and men contributed to the making of the atom bomb.

Relates the history of the women who contributed to the war work in World War II at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and captures the spirit of the secret war work and contributions of those women.