How Women Served as Human Computers During the Manhattan Project and the Development of the Bomb that Ended WW II.

By Ron Brock, author of The Thicket’s ProdigyIt was August 7, 1945; President Harry S. Truman’s announcement was brief:“16 hours ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT… Which is the largest bomb ever used in the history of […]