Manhattan Project

How to Find Records of Relatives Who Worked on the Manhattan Project

How to Find Records of Relatives Who Worked on the Manhattan Project

The popularity of the 2023 movie Oppenheimer has brought national attention once again to the Manhattan Project. My wife, who wrote a book about the subject, routinely gets emails from fans asking how they can find out definitively if a family member worked on the project during wartime. Here’s her response…

Pre-order The Girls of Atomic City now


My wife and her publisher are running a giveaway to drum up pre-orders for her book The Girls of Atomic City, which pubs in March. If you buy the book and forward a receipt, you’ll be entered in a giveaway to win a Nook ereader. Details found here.

Denise was told that more and more publishers are going with minimalistic language on the back cover copy for advance reading copies (ARCs). In fact, say the publishing geniuses, they want them to sound like movie trailers. Hence the copy here.

Cover Reveal: The Girls of Atomic City!

This just in!My wife and sometimes co-author Denise Kiernan just got the cover of her next book, The Girls of Atomic City, about the women who unknowingly worked to create the fuel for the first bomb.It’s a true story—a narrative nonfiction title th…

This just in!

My wife and sometimes co-author Denise Kiernan just got the cover of her next book, The Girls of Atomic City, about the women who unknowingly worked to create the fuel for the first bomb.

It’s a true story—a narrative nonfiction title that will be published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in March 2013.

I’m proud of her. It’s a project she’s been working on, in various ways, for the last seven years or so.

To find out more, you can check out Denise’s website

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Check out her old-timey WWII-era images on her Tumblr blog.

You can pre-order via Amazon.

Or pre-order a signed copy via our indie bookstore, Malaprops.

I’ll post again about this when she gets a trailer together.