Nuclear Bookshelf · Version 2.0
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The Rosetta Nuclear Bookshelf is a curated research library of 54 books, official histories, reference works, and one forthcoming Rosetta study. Each entry explains why the work matters to historical nuclear-weapons research and points readers toward a verified access route when one is available.
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Books are arranged by a primary shelf, but Rosetta tags connect them across facilities, programs, worker populations, monitoring systems, materials, archives, classification, and dose-reconstruction questions.
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Manhattan Project
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Nuclear-Weapons History
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Atomic Energy Commission
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Department of Energy
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Nuclear Testing
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Nuclear Science
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Radiation & Health Physics
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Occupational Radiation Exposure
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Nuclear Policy
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Cold War
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Nuclear Secrecy & Classification
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Archival Research
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Nuclear-Worker Histories
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54 works · 13 shelves · verified research pathways.
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Manhattan Project
The Making of the Atomic Bomb1986
FOUNDATIONAL
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)
A landmark history of the creation of the atomic bomb, connecting scientific discovery to the enormous military and industrial system built at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other Manhattan Project locations. Rosetta uses it as broad historical context and as a guide to people, programs, and facilities requiring deeper documentary research.
Access: Publisher / eBook — Simon & Schuster
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project1962
CORE ORGANIZATIONAL
Leslie R. Groves — Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (1962)
General Leslie Groves's firsthand account of directing the Manhattan Project. Its Rosetta value lies in military authority, contractor relationships, site selection, construction, procurement, security, and the organizational structure that generated many surviving wartime records.
Access: Borrow / Catalog — Open Library
The New World, 1939–19461962
CORE RECORDS
Richard G. Hewlett; Oscar E. Anderson Jr. — The New World, 1939–1946 (1962)
The first volume of the official AEC history and one of Rosetta's principal guides to the Manhattan Project's organizations, facilities, processes, and source records. Its notes and documentary foundation are especially valuable for tracing underlying MED and AEC records.
Access: Full Text — DOE
The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb2010
FOUNDATIONAL
F. G. Gosling — The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (2010)
Provides historical context for the organizations, facilities, workers, technologies, and records of the Manhattan Project. Rosetta uses this work to connect narrative history with facility, workforce, material, monitoring, and archival research.
Access: FULL TEXT — GOVINFO
Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb1985
CORE RECORDS
Vincent C. Jones — Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb (1985)
The U.S. Army's detailed official history of the Manhattan Project. Rosetta uses it to trace Army and Manhattan Engineer District authority, contracts, construction workforces, procurement, security, and the offices responsible for creating wartime records.
Access: Full Text — U.S. Army CMH
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes1945
FOUNDATIONAL
Henry DeWolf Smyth — Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (1945)
Provides historical context for the organizations, facilities, workers, technologies, and records of the Manhattan Project. Rosetta uses this work to connect narrative history with facility, workforce, material, monitoring, and archival research.
Access: Full Text — ORAU Health Physics Museum
Nuclear-Weapons History
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb1995
FACILITY / CONTEXT
Richard Rhodes — Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995)
Places weapons laboratories, production plants, testing, workers, and Cold War programs within the broader history of the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex and provides leads for facility-specific research.
Access: Publisher / eBook — Simon & Schuster
The Atomic West1998
FACILITY / CONTEXT
Bruce Hevly; John Findlay, eds. — The Atomic West (1998)
Places weapons laboratories, production plants, testing, workers, and Cold War programs within the broader history of the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex and provides leads for facility-specific research.
Access: Publisher — University of Washington Press
Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West1999
FACILITY RESEARCH
Len Ackland — Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999)
A detailed history of Rocky Flats and plutonium-component production. It provides important leads concerning workers, contamination, environmental monitoring, secrecy, contractor-government relationships, and records surrounding one of the nuclear-weapons complex's most consequential production plants.
Access: Publisher — University of New Mexico Press
Los Alamos: The First Forty Years1984
FACILITY / CONTEXT
Fern Lyon; Jacob Evans — Los Alamos: The First Forty Years (1984)
Places weapons laboratories, production plants, testing, workers, and Cold War programs within the broader history of the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex and provides leads for facility-specific research.
Access: CATALOG / PREVIEW — GOOGLE BOOKS
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942–19921996
CORE PRODUCTION HISTORY
Rodney P. Carlisle with Joan M. Zenzen — Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942–1992 (1996)
A history of the production reactors that supplied plutonium and tritium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal. For Rosetta, it is especially valuable for Hanford and Savannah River operations, reactor facilities, production missions, contractors, and the records created around weapons-material production.
Access: Publisher — Johns Hopkins University Press
New V2.0 addition; cross-tag Department of Energy.
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Shield, 1947–19521969
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Richard G. Hewlett; Francis Duncan — Atomic Shield, 1947–1952 (1969)
Helps trace AEC programs, authority, field offices, contractors, facilities, and records. Particularly useful for institutional and records genealogy across the postwar nuclear complex.
Access: FULL TEXT — DOE
Atoms for Peace and War, 1953–19611989
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Richard G. Hewlett; Jack M. Holl — Atoms for Peace and War, 1953–1961 (1989)
Helps trace AEC programs, authority, field offices, contractors, facilities, and records. Particularly useful for institutional and records genealogy across the postwar nuclear complex.
Access: Full Text — DOE
Cross-tag: Nuclear Policy; legacy duplicate NB-040 retired from public cards.
A History of the Atomic Energy Commission1983
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Alice L. Buck — A History of the Atomic Energy Commission (1983)
Helps trace AEC programs, authority, field offices, contractors, facilities, and records. Particularly useful for institutional and records genealogy across the postwar nuclear complex.
Access: OFFICIAL HISTORY HUB — DOE
Atomic Fission: The Breakup of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Reorganization Act of 19742024
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Eric W. Boyle; Thomas R. Wellock — Atomic Fission: The Breakup of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (2024)
Helps trace AEC programs, authority, field offices, contractors, facilities, and records. Particularly useful for institutional and records genealogy across the postwar nuclear complex.
Access: FULL TEXT — U.S. NRC
Nuclear Navy, 1946–19621974
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Richard G. Hewlett; Francis Duncan — Nuclear Navy, 1946–1962 (1974)
Helps trace AEC programs, authority, field offices, contractors, facilities, and records. Particularly useful for institutional and records genealogy across the postwar nuclear complex.
Access: FULL TEXT — DOE
Cross-tag: Nuclear Science; legacy duplicate NB-027 retired from public cards.
Department of Energy
A History of the Energy Research and Development Administration1982
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Alice L. Buck — A History of the Energy Research and Development Administration (1982)
Helps trace DOE programs, reorganizations, field offices, environmental and defense missions, and the later custody of historical nuclear-complex records.
Access: FULL TEXT — DOE
United States Department of Energy: A History1982
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Jack M. Holl — United States Department of Energy: A History (1982)
Helps trace DOE programs, reorganizations, field offices, environmental and defense missions, and the later custody of historical nuclear-complex records.
Access: Full Text — UNT Digital Library / DOE
Department of Energy, 1977–1994: A Summary History1994
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
Terrence R. Fehner; Jack M. Holl — Department of Energy, 1977–1994: A Summary History (1994)
Helps trace DOE programs, reorganizations, field offices, environmental and defense missions, and the later custody of historical nuclear-complex records.
Access: FULL TEXT — UNT / DOE
Closing the Circle: The Department of Energy and Environmental Management, 1942–19941994
CORE / INSTITUTIONAL
F. G. Gosling; Terrence R. Fehner — Closing the Circle: The Department of Energy and Environmental Management, 1942–1994 (1994)
Helps trace DOE programs, reorganizations, field offices, environmental and defense missions, and the later custody of historical nuclear-complex records.
Access: FULL TEXT — DOE
Coming in From the Cold: Regulating U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities, 1942–19961996
CORE OVERSIGHT
F. G. Gosling; Terrence R. Fehner — Coming in From the Cold: Regulating U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities, 1942–1996 (1996)
An official history of nuclear-safety regulation and oversight within DOE and its predecessors. Rosetta uses it to reconstruct changing safety expectations, oversight authority, compliance systems, audits, and the records that should have been generated by nuclear-facility operations.
Access: OFFICIAL PUBLICATION PAGE — DOE
Nuclear Testing
Origins of the Nevada Test Site2000
TESTING / RESEARCH
Terrence R. Fehner — Origins of the Nevada Test Site (2000)
Provides context and research leads for nuclear-test operations, participant populations, fallout, monitoring, facilities, and the documentary record of U.S. testing programs.
Access: FULL TEXT — DOE
Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1951–1963: Battlefield of the Cold War2000
CORE TESTING
Terrence R. Fehner; F. G. Gosling — Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1951–1963: Battlefield of the Cold War (2000)
An official history of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing from 1951 to 1963. Particularly useful for test operations, participant populations, radiation monitoring, fallout, exposure concerns, and the government records generated by continental and Pacific testing.
Access: FULL TEXT LINK AVAILABLE — DOE HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing1986
TESTING / RESEARCH
Richard L. Miller — Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing (1986)
Provides context and research leads for nuclear-test operations, participant populations, fallout, monitoring, facilities, and the documentary record of U.S. testing programs.
Access: Borrow / Catalog — Open Library
Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics1986
TESTING / RESEARCH
A. Costandina Titus — Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics (1986)
Provides context and research leads for nuclear-test operations, participant populations, fallout, monitoring, facilities, and the documentary record of U.S. testing programs.
Access: PUBLISHER / EBOOK — UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS
American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War1993
TESTING / RESEARCH
Carole Gallagher — American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War (1993)
Provides context and research leads for nuclear-test operations, participant populations, fallout, monitoring, facilities, and the documentary record of U.S. testing programs.
Access: Publisher — MIT Press
The Day We Bombed Utah1984
TESTING / RESEARCH
John G. Fuller — The Day We Bombed Utah (1984)
Provides context and research leads for nuclear-test operations, participant populations, fallout, monitoring, facilities, and the documentary record of U.S. testing programs.
Access: BORROW — OPEN LIBRARY
Nuclear Science
Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: The Discipline of Technology1989
TECHNICAL / CONTEXT
Francis Duncan — Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: The Discipline of Technology (1989)
Provides technical and participant context for reactor, laboratory, radiochemistry, or nuclear-program development and helps identify people, institutions, methods, and archival leads.
Access: FULL TEXT — GOVINFO
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan2010
TECHNICAL / CONTEXT
George A. Cowan — Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan (2010)
Provides technical and participant context for reactor, laboratory, radiochemistry, or nuclear-program development and helps identify people, institutions, methods, and archival leads.
Access: PUBLISHER / EBOOK — UNM PRESS
The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer1994
CORE PARTICIPANT / REACTOR HISTORY
Alvin M. Weinberg — The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer (1994)
Alvin Weinberg's participant history connects the Metallurgical Laboratory, wartime reactor development, X-10/Clinton Laboratories, ORNL, and the growth of the reactor enterprise. Rosetta uses it to trace technical networks, institutional succession, people, and records across early reactor programs.
Access: Publisher / eBook — Springer
New V2.0 addition; cross-tag Manhattan Project and Nuclear-Worker Histories.
Radiation & Health Physics
Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century2000
CORE METHODOLOGY
J. Samuel Walker — Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century (2000)
A history of radiation-protection standards and the scientific debates behind them. Rosetta uses it to establish which dose concepts, permissible limits, and monitoring expectations belonged to a particular historical period before comparing those expectations with actual facility practice.
Access: Publisher — University of California Press
The Angry Genie: One Man’s Walk Through the Nuclear Age1999
CORE PARTICIPANT
Karl Z. Morgan; Ken M. Peterson — The Angry Genie: One Man’s Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)
Karl Z. Morgan's participant account of the development of health physics. It provides unusually valuable leads to Oak Ridge monitoring practices, instruments, internal-dose concerns, professional networks, and the people and organizations responsible for early worker radiation protection.
Access: PREVIEW / CATALOG — GOOGLE BOOKS
Health Physics: A Backward Glance1980
CORE / TECHNICAL
Ronald L. Kathren; Paul L. Ziemer, eds. — Health Physics: A Backward Glance (1980)
Supports Rosetta research on radiation-protection standards, monitoring practices, instruments, dosimetry, occupational medicine, and the historical development of health physics.
Access: CATALOG ONLY — NO VERIFIED DIRECT PUBLIC LINK
No public access link is currently available.
Physics for Radiation ProtectionVarious editions
CORE / TECHNICAL
James E. Martin — Physics for Radiation Protection (Various editions)
Supports Rosetta research on radiation-protection standards, monitoring practices, instruments, dosimetry, occupational medicine, and the historical development of health physics.
Access: Publisher / eBook — Wiley
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age2020
CORE / TECHNICAL
James L. Nolan Jr. — Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (2020)
Supports Rosetta research on radiation-protection standards, monitoring practices, instruments, dosimetry, occupational medicine, and the historical development of health physics.
Access: Publisher — Harvard University Press
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments1995
CORE RECORDS GATEWAY
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments — Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (1995)
The federal government's landmark investigation of human radiation experiments. For Rosetta it is both a substantive history and a records gateway, pointing toward plutonium and uranium studies, body-burden measurements, medical surveillance, internal dosimetry, secrecy, and underlying archival collections.
Access: FULL TEXT — WELLCOME COLLECTION
Occupational Radiation Exposure
Reconstructing Occupational Radiation Exposure: Historical Evidence, Scientific Method, and the Reliability of Retrospective Dose Reconstruction — The Pinellas Plant as a Case StudyForthcoming
CORE ROSETTA — FORTHCOMING
3D — Reconstructing Occupational Radiation Exposure: Historical Evidence, Scientific Method, and the Reliability of Retrospective Dose Reconstruction — The Pinellas Plant as a Case Study (Forthcoming)
A forthcoming Rosetta work examining historical evidence, scientific method, and the reliability of retrospective occupational dose reconstruction through the Pinellas Plant case. It brings together worker populations, monitoring and bioassay, records survival, uncertainty, and SEC reconstructability.
Access: FORTHCOMING
No public access link is currently available.
Forthcoming Rosetta core work.
Occupational Exposures to Uranium: Processes, Hazards, and Regulations1981
CORE TECHNICAL
National Research Council / Committee source — Occupational Exposures to Uranium: Processes, Hazards, and Regulations (1981)
A technical government study of occupational uranium exposure across different processes and chemical forms. Rosetta uses it to evaluate uranium source terms, air sampling, bioassay, internal-dose assumptions, industrial hygiene, and whether monitoring methods were appropriate for particular operations.
Access: Full Text — OSTI
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War1999
CORE / SEC
Eileen Welsome — The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
Directly supports Rosetta research on worker exposure, monitoring, bioassay, internal dose, records survival, and the reliability of retrospective dose reconstruction.
Access: PREVIEW / CATALOG — OPEN LIBRARY
Nuclear Policy
Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946–19621984
POLICY / INSTITUTIONAL
George T. Mazuzan; J. Samuel Walker — Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946–1962 (1984)
Provides institutional and policy context for nuclear regulation, agency responsibility, program development, and the records generated by federal nuclear policy.
Access: Full Text — U.S. NRC
United States Civilian Nuclear Power Policy, 1954–19841985
POLICY / INSTITUTIONAL
Richard G. Hewlett et al. — United States Civilian Nuclear Power Policy, 1954–1984 (1985)
Provides institutional and policy context for nuclear regulation, agency responsibility, program development, and the records generated by federal nuclear policy.
Access: Official Catalog — NTIS
Cold War
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters2013
WORKER / PRODUCTION
Kate Brown — Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2013)
A comparative history of plutonium-production communities in the United States and Soviet Union. Its Hanford material is particularly useful for worker populations, labor stratification, production culture, contamination, and the relationship between atomic-city life and occupational monitoring.
Access: Publisher — Oxford University Press
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War1996
CLASSIFIED WORKPLACE
Hugh Gusterson — Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (1996)
An ethnographic study of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the end of the Cold War. It offers rare insight into classified workplace culture, security, technical groups, access boundaries, and how weapons-laboratory workers understood their work.
Access: Publisher — University of California Press
Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex1982
WORKER / CONTEXT
Paul Loeb — Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex (1982)
Provides worker, institutional, community, and classified-workplace context for the Cold War nuclear complex and generates leads that can be tested against official records.
Access: CATALOG / PREVIEW — GOOGLE BOOKS
Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America2022
WORKER / CONTEXT
Joshua Frank — Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (2022)
Provides worker, institutional, community, and classified-workplace context for the Cold War nuclear complex and generates leads that can be tested against official records.
Access: Publisher — Haymarket Books
Nuclear Secrecy & Classification
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2021
CORE CLASSIFICATION
Alex Wellerstein — Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (2021)
A history of nuclear secrecy in the United States and a core Rosetta source for understanding Restricted Data, compartmentation, classification authority, declassification, and the unusual archival pathways followed by sensitive nuclear-weapons information.
Access: Publisher — University of Chicago Press
Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Policy, 1946 to the PresentGovernment history/reference
CORE DECLASSIFICATION
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Declassification — Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Policy, 1946 to the Present (Government history/reference)
An official history of Restricted Data declassification policy. Rosetta uses it to distinguish classified or restricted records from records that are genuinely missing and to identify classification guides, review decisions, and lawful records-access pathways.
Access: OFFICIAL PUBLICATION HUB — DOE
Archival Research
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States1995 / online
CORE ARCHIVAL TOOL
National Archives and Records Administration — Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States (1995 / online)
NARA's guide to federal record groups and archival holdings. It is one of Rosetta's essential research tools because it allows records to be traced through creating agencies, offices, series, and repositories rather than relying only on modern facility names.
Access: Full Text / Guide — NARA
Human Radiation Experiments: The Department of Energy Roadmap to the Story and the Records1995
CORE RECORDS GATEWAY
U.S. Department of Energy — Human Radiation Experiments: The Department of Energy Roadmap to the Story and the Records (1995)
DOE's roadmap to the records of human radiation experiments. It identifies repositories, record series, institutions, experiments, and search pathways, making it one of Rosetta's strongest bridges from a historical claim to the underlying documentation.
Access: Full Text / Records Guide — DOE
Manhattan District History (36-volume collection)1940s; declassified later
CORE OFFICIAL COLLECTION
U.S. Department of Energy — Manhattan District History (36-volume collection) (1940s; declassified later)
The multi-volume official history of the Manhattan Engineer District. Its detailed coverage of sites, processes, engineering, organizations, contracts, and administration makes it one of Rosetta's strongest tools for identifying Manhattan-era operations and the records those operations should have produced.
Access: Full Text Collection — DOE
Use 'multi-volume collection' publicly; internal DOE 35/36 count discrepancy preserved.
Nuclear-Worker Histories
Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford1995
WORKER TESTIMONY
S. L. Sanger — Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford (1995)
An oral history of wartime Hanford workers. Rosetta uses the interviews to identify job titles, work areas, tasks, shifts, protective practices, monitoring experiences, and named workers whose accounts can then be checked against personnel, dosimetry, and operational records.
Access: PREVIEW / CATALOG — GOOGLE BOOKS
City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942–19461981
CORE WORKFORCE
Charles W. Johnson; Charles O. Jackson — City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942–1946 (1981)
A history of wartime Oak Ridge and its closed-city workforce. It is particularly useful for separating Y-12, K-25, and X-10 populations and for identifying contractors, worker groups, access restrictions, housing, and the social organization surrounding the production plants.
Access: PUBLISHER / EBOOK — UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PRESS
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II2013
WORKER LEADS
Denise Kiernan — The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (2013)
A narrative history centered on women who worked at wartime Oak Ridge. Its interviews and named-worker stories provide leads concerning Y-12 calutron operators, jobs, shifts, supervisors, training, and personnel records that can be pursued in primary sources.
Access: Publisher / eBook — Simon & Schuster
On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site1992
WORKER / LEGACY
Michele Stenehjem Gerber — On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site (1992)
A history of Hanford and its Cold War legacy, connecting plutonium production with workers, communities, waste, contamination, and later environmental evidence. Rosetta uses it to bridge production-era history with the records and discoveries of the site's legacy period.
Access: PUBLISHER — UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
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