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Alices in a nuclear Wonderland

20 Feb 2014
Taken from the February 2014 issue of Physics World

The Girls of Atomic City: the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Denise Kiernan
2013 Touchstone Books £16.67/ $27.00hb 373pp

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Denise Kiernan’s The Girls of Atomic City tells the story of a dozen women who left rural Amer

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Kate Brown is a historian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US, and author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press 2013), e-mail kbrown@umbc.edu
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