Welcome to the Machine
…walk, Oak Ridge, does not exist on any map, and the work they do is supposed to be kept secret, too, even from each other. “So do you work at…
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A Castle on a Mountaintop
…Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. The author of the bestselling The Girls of Atomic City, a cultural history of the women who worked at the Oak Ridge project during…
A Glowing Review
In the preface to her elegant new guide, Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs, Lynn Frierson Faust, an independent researcher known as “The Lightning Bug Lady,” tells the story of how…
A Noble Lunacy
…in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. With surprising ease, they broke into the facility. They painted graffiti: “Woe to an Empire of Blood.” They tossed human blood upon the walls. With the…
Utopia, Nostalgia, and the Bomb
…workers in Oak Ridge. In personal recollections and public commemorations, Oak Ridgers cast their city as an “atomic utopia,” “an island of culture, prestige, and intelligence tucked away from the…
“Tennessee Line”
…Prize. He was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, and grew up in Oak Ridge and Kingsport. To read more about the new Poet Laureate, click here. Tennessee Line Afternoon overcast…
