{"id":1521,"date":"2014-01-01T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/gl\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:42:39","slug":"atomic-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/2014\/01\/01\/atomic-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Lecture Date: March 13, 2014<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3\/13 Women Of The Manhattan Project\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/97563285?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/atomic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-59587 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/atomic-200x300.png\" alt=\"atomic\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/atomic-200x300.png 200w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/atomic.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\"><\/a>&nbsp;The topic will delve into a top-secret world where young women and men lived and worked surrounded by spies and secrecy, forbidden to speak of their work, even to each other, as the United States worked to face the challenges of World War II and the Manhattan Project raced to harness nuclear power. At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians&mdash;many of them young women from small towns across the South&mdash;were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war&mdash;when Oak Ridge&rsquo;s secret was revealed. &nbsp;Kiernan will discuss this story of adventure, intrigue, sacrifice and controversy.<\/p><h2 style=\"color: #b81237;font-family: MuseoSlab;font-weight: 900\">Lecture Pictures<\/h2><p>[flickr_set id=&rdquo;72157643804355694&Prime;]<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h2 style=\"color: #B81237;font-family: MuseoSlab;font-weight: 900\">Speaker: Denise Kiernan<\/h2><figure id=\"attachment_59570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59570\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/kiernan-150x150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59570\" src=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/kiernan-150x150.png\" alt=\"Denise Kiernan, Author of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win WWII\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/kiernan-150x150.png 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/kiernan-150x150-50x50.png 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/kiernan-150x150-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Kiernan, Author of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win WWII<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><i><\/i><\/p><p>Denise Kiernan has been working as a writer for nearly 20 years. She has been published in <i>The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Ms. Magazine, Reader&rsquo;s Digest, Discover, Saveur <\/i>and many more publications. She has also worked in television, serving as head writer for ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Who Wants to Be a Millionaire&rdquo; during its Emmy Award-winning first season, and producing for places such as ESPN and MSNBC. She has authored several popular history titles including &nbsp;<i>Signing Their Lives Away, Signing Their Rights Away<\/i> and <i>Stuff Every American Should Know<\/i> and has ghost written books for athletes, entrepreneurs and actresses. An an author, she has discussed her work on <i>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MSNBC Morning Joe, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, <\/i>and other national and regional programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Date: March 13, 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp;The topic will delve into a top-secret world where young women and men lived and worked surrounded by spies and secrecy, forbidden to speak of their work, even to each other, as the United States worked to face the challenges of World War II and the Manhattan Project raced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lectures","7":"tag-4","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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