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So, what about that thing?

Our book group is an agreeable group. And everyone agreed on a few things about this book. First…it was helpful to have a list of characters…because there were a lot of names mentioned in this book. The author did extensive research and interviews, so everyone thought it was helpful to be able to go back to this list if necessary. Blacks and whites were treated vastly differently at Oak Ridge, perhaps because the Civil Rights movement was still off in the distance, and many people who came to work there were from the South. But one of the most “obvious” things the book communicated to the reader is that no matter how dreary, muddy, boring of unfair life was working on the “project” everyone was all-in. Meaning that everyone was working for the completion of the project, and even though they might not have known what they were building, they all believed in it. Of course this war was unlike any other that people could remember. The whole country seemed to be behind the war effort, and the people at Oak Ridge were no different. And in the end, it really made us wonder if creating this ultra-weapon was necessary, and should it have been used? But that’s another discussion.

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