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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.
About the Author
Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo State. She received her PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. Freeman writes about memory, nostalgia, utopia, space/place, atomic & nuclear culture, art, and the Southern superreal. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (The University of North Carolina Press, 2015) . Freeman's articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Space and Culture, Memory Studies, and The International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society. Her work has also been included in a number of edited volumes, most recently Death Tourism (Seagull Books, 2014) .
