Lindsey A. Freeman Knihy

The narrative explores the unique history of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the first atomic city established during the Manhattan Project. Hidden away in Appalachia, its workers contributed to the war effort without fully grasping the implications of their labor. The book chronicles the evolution of this city through the Atomic Age, highlighting its transformation from a wartime hub to a symbol of atomic optimism, and later, the tensions of the Cold War. This journey offers insight into America's intricate relationship with nuclear power, reflecting both its allure and its anxieties.

Former college track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents a feminist and queer handbook of running in which she considers what it means to run as a visibly queer person while exploring how running puts us in contact with ourselves and others.

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.