Podcasts about atomic city the untold story

There's nothing we love more than a good book, but a non-fiction book? Man tries to convince Jo about the fascination of non-fiction reads like The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War ll by Denise Kiernan, while Jo entices Man with the Dead Asleep documentary (HULU). Man then takes a turn to discuss We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime) gross!!!Then we wrap it up with Ozark (Netflix).Find us on all podcasting platform every Wednesday!

In this episode, we see how many scientists in the desert it takes to build an atomic bomb by watching the 1989 movie “Fat Man and Little Boy.” How did scientists and the military both collaborate and clash in the pursuit of the first nuclear weapon? What was the role of women scientists in this endeavor? Could you actually buy a condo in Manhattan even if you had the budget of the atomic bomb project? Tim Westmyer (@NuclearPodcast) and special guests/nuke experts Erin Connolly (@Erin_Conn17) and Kate Hewitt (@BlondNukeGirl) from Girl Security answer these questions and more. Before we started eating our Pentagon cakes, we recommend: -Day One, 1989 TV Movie -Robert Serber, The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build the Atomic Bomb, 1992 -Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 1986 -Denise Kiernan, Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, 2014 -John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946 -Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, And The Great Soviet And American Plutonium Disasters, 2015 -GirlSecurity.org -HighlyEnriched.com (coming soon) Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

This week, we're looking back at a previous episode and learning about the power and peril of the atom, with two books about women who were instrumental in helping us unlock its secrets. We're joined by Huffington Post editor Shelley Emling, to discuss her book "Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family." And we'll speak to author Denise Kiernan about her book, "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II."

August 5, 2016 – Today, we’re going to hear from author, journalist and producer Denise Kiernan. Her latest book is, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Kiernan is the author of several history books, including Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence, and Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution. You can follow today's History in 5 Friday author on Twitter @DeniseKiernan, and visit her online at DeniseKiernan.com, or GirlsofAtomicCity.com. To meet the British counterparts to the Girls of Atomic City -- the code breaking WRENS who cracked the riddle of Hitler's Enigma machine -- visit Bletchley Park Trust online, and subscribe to the Bletchley Park Podcast on iTunes or Audioboom. And remember to subscribe to the History Author Show on iTunes, like our iHeartRadio page, or make us appointment listening on your Android device, so you don’t miss an installment of History in Five Friday. It’s the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend… with people from the past.

Denise Kiernan appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: The work of Denise Kiernan has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Ms., and many other publications. Her varied career includes serving as head writer for the television quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" during its first season. Kiernan's most recent book is the New York Times best-seller "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II." It conveys the story of the young women who lived in a secret government city while working on the Manhattan project. For transcript, captions and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6131