Longing For The Bomb

Traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the US government in the 1940s. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how this once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future.