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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
The girls that enabled the us to utile the atomic bomb. They were better at running the machines to create the radioactive fuel for the bombs than the scientists were.
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Behind the Bomb | Brain Pickings


I remember seeing a documentary on that. The women had to manually control the tens of thousands of centrifuges used to seperate the different atomic weights of the unanium oxide.
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