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Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia

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Longing for the Bomb traces the abnormal story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, used to be created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government within the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping “the war effort.” The city has experienced all of the lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it all started to brand itself as “The Atomic City,” to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory recent period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge’s story deepens our figuring out of the complex relationship between The us and its bombs.

Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it used to be historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. This is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of The us’s atomic past and to give an explanation for the nuclear present.

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