The Girls of Atomic City (58 page)

C

Cade, Ebb (HP-12),
xv
,
209
–11,
246
–47

plutonium injections of,
221
–22,
247
,
292
–93

calutron cubicle operators,
14
,
103
,
109
,
112
–17,
120
,
189
,
262

calutrons (D units),
102
–4,
119
,
243

Campbell, Miriam White,
251

carbon,
33

Carrizozo, N.Mex.,
237

Celotex Corporation,
83

cemesto,
83

censorship,
154
,
157
,
237
,
259
–60

of mail,
161
–62,
177

of news reports,
290
,
291

CEW,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

Chapel on the Hill,
52
–53,
141
–42,
217
,
276

Chicago Defender,
301

Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory,
xvi
,
75
,
80
,
151
,
152
,
174
,
230
,
234
,
241
,
242
,
288

Chicago Pile-1,
xvi

China,
245

China Syndrome, The,
304

Churchill, Winston,
236
,
238
,
239
,
242
,
253

church services,
52
–53,
141
–42,
145

Clark, Dwight,
221
,
222

Clarke, Eric Kent,
xv
,
96
–97,
135
,
184
–86,
198
–200,
315

Clement, Frank,
297

Clinch River,
22
,
26

Clinton, Bill,
293

Clinton, Tenn.,
20
–21

Clinton Engineer Works (CEW; Site X; Kingston Demolition Range; the Reservation),
x
,
xvi
,
19
,
174

advantages of location,
21
–22

attitudes about,
185
,
186

average age of workers at,
138

badges for workers at,
113

cafeterias at,
51
,
92

black employees at,
47
,
91
–92,
97
,
144
–46,
276

bus system for,
112
–13,
211
–12

Castle on the Hill (administration building),
1
,
39
–41,
51
,
83
,
111
,
189
,
196

censorship of letters and,
161
–62,
177

clearances for workers at,
63
–65,
153

codes used at,
119

Congress and,
224
–25,
227

construction of,
20
–21,
28
–29,
37
,
52
,
82
–84,
85
,
88
,
211

displaced former residents as workers at,
28

expansion of,
211

Groves’s address to workers at,
287

guards at,
90
–91,
113

informants at,
72
–74,
117
–18,
167
–69,
212
–13

K-25 plant,
xiii
,
xvi
,
29
,
47
,
82
–85,
87
,
100
,
106
,
108
,
117
,
122
–24,
189
,
191
,
192
,
205
–6,
209
,
247
,
259
,
273
,
295
,
302
,
313
,
314

bomber plane and,
219
–21

closing of,
295

construction of,
101
,
105
,
191

gaseous diffusion process at,
101
–2,
191

name of,
105

shape of building,
102

size of,
101
,
104

start of full operations at,
201
–3

K-27 plant,
192
,
295

local companies angered by,
147

map of,
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mud and lack of sidewalks at,
37
–39,
51
,
70
,
82
,
83
,
84
,
137
,
146
,
148
,
183
,
184
,
223

and news of atomic bomb,
249

orientation films at,
65

personnel security questionnaires for,
110
–11

photographic documentation of,
30
–31,
156
,
233
,
240
,
245
–46,
273

plant closings at,
277

population size at,
211
,
295

postwar transformation of,
296
–97

progress made at,
205
–6,
219

psychiatric issues affecting workers at,
96
–97,
184
–87,
198
–99

questions about future of,
269
–70

relationship with surrounding communities,
146
–47

residents evicted for construction of,
23
–29,
83
,
146

rumors at,
162
–63

S-50 plant,
xiv
,
xvi
,
100
,
106
–7,
191
–92,
206
,
259

construction of,
172
,
192

liquid thermal diffusion process at,
101
,
107
–8,
192

operations started at,
205

safety and health issues at,
206
–7