By the time I went to school, duck-and-cover drills were for tornados, not nuclear fallout. Here's what I learned about the Ohio River's role in America's nuclear bomb programs then and now.
I don't remember anything unusual about the narration ... not sure if it's the same book or not. It could also be the sieve of my memory playing tricks 😅
Of the two, I remember the Church being more enjoyable as a novel, FWIW
Loved that you read this! I remember being scared of nuclear war even in the ‘80s and the movie, THE DAY AFTER. My granddad was a chemical petroleum engineer in Borger, Texas, where Philips built an entire town for its workers. I don’t have any reason to believe he was ever involved with nuclear matter, but I went to camps in Blue Haven NM --and met a boy from Los Alamos who became a pen pal. I’ve seen the Oppenheimer movie, very interesting.
WOW, I had forgotten about THE DAY AFTER, but I remember it so clearly with your prompt. Talk about a horror movie. I was in college and remember the rickety old TV we watched it on.
Glad you enjoyed the narration. I don't mind the AI narration but I like doing it myself. I listen to a lot of articles these days, including on Substack.
I loved The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church. Janet Beard's Atomic City Girls is another good one. Both are fiction
Oh! Isn't Atomic City Girls the one written in the unusual form of "we" with no single protagonist? If so, how did that work for you?
I haven't heard of the other by Elizabeth Church.
THANKS!
I don't remember anything unusual about the narration ... not sure if it's the same book or not. It could also be the sieve of my memory playing tricks 😅
Of the two, I remember the Church being more enjoyable as a novel, FWIW
Loved that you read this! I remember being scared of nuclear war even in the ‘80s and the movie, THE DAY AFTER. My granddad was a chemical petroleum engineer in Borger, Texas, where Philips built an entire town for its workers. I don’t have any reason to believe he was ever involved with nuclear matter, but I went to camps in Blue Haven NM --and met a boy from Los Alamos who became a pen pal. I’ve seen the Oppenheimer movie, very interesting.
WOW, I had forgotten about THE DAY AFTER, but I remember it so clearly with your prompt. Talk about a horror movie. I was in college and remember the rickety old TV we watched it on.
Glad you enjoyed the narration. I don't mind the AI narration but I like doing it myself. I listen to a lot of articles these days, including on Substack.