Margaret Rossiter | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. By Ruth H. Howes and Caroline Herzenberg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. viii, 264 pp. $34.50, ISBN 1-56639-719-7.)

The Manhattan Project of World War II has left such an indelible mark on the physics community in the United States that it has spawned its own branch of history. Led by such legendary figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves, the project employed about three hundred thousand persons at its height in 1943–1945 at three principal sites, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Hanford, Washington. There were preexisting and lesser sites at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Iowa State University. Though many persons contributed to this massive project, its story has usually been told from the viewpoint of those at the top—a phenomenon of the histories of most large bureaucracies, augmented here by the project's strict security restrictions, which meant that only a few knew its overall purpose. The literature, however, has been broadening ever since Groves published his memoirs in 1962. Since then we have had reminiscences of daily life at Los Alamos and accounts of the "atomic workers" at Hanford and elsewhere. . . .

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