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Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping the war effort. Fittingly enough, though, freemans grandmother becomes an important punctuation point in the book. Archival and personal, theoretically astute, freemans book brings into view a. As a secret city during the manhattan project, oak ridge enriched the uranium that powered little boy, the bomb that destroyed hiroshima. Freeman 2015, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Buy at local store enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. Freeman published by the university of north carolina press freeman, lindsey a.
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