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Living in the Shadow of the Nuclear Warhead: A ‘Glow in the Dark’ Memoir

During the Cold War era following World War II, I was busy growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a “secret city” constructed by the federal government wholly and specifically to help develop and produce the world’s first atomic weapon. But as a five-year-old boy in 1957, my duties consisted only of attending school during the weekContinue reading “Living in the Shadow of the Nuclear Warhead: A ‘Glow in the Dark’ Memoir”