Hello friends, welcome.

Thank you for joining me today.

We're going to continue our series, How Women One World War Two.

And last episode, we talked a little bit about women who did war work for a very specific,

completely classified government research operation.

And if you've listened, you know it by name.

The Manhattan Project.

The top secret project ran for three war-filled years and employed over 120,000 people.

Most of those people had no idea that they were working on one of the most powerful projects

of all time.

Creating nuclear weapons.

They were just eager to help the allied powers.

But among their ranks, a few of them, women included, were just as eager to share America's

nuclear secrets with the enemy.

I'm Sharon McMahon.

And here's where it gets interesting.

By June of 1942, about seven months after the United States declared war on the Axis

nations of Japan, Germany, and Italy, thousands of women packed up their belongings and moved

to a new, rustic community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

These women, many of whom were just out of high school, were drawn there by the promise

of well-paying jobs and affordable housing.

They showed up ready to work for a company called Clinton Engineer Works.

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