SuitabookAtomic Women
Roseanne Montillo
- Reading
- Read together in sections, pausing to identify each scientist’s contribution and what remains uncertain about her awareness of the consequences; avoid assuming that all the women had the same experience.
- Themes
- Women’s scientific contributions: The book addresses women’s scientific contributions; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. Their contributions are brought into focus, but the fuller narrative’s interpretation of their roles cannot be determined.
- Scientific responsibility and consequences: The book links the scientists’ work to atomic-bomb development and says some were not fully aware of the consequences. This raises a question about responsibility, but the book’s judgement of the scientists or project is not established.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes nuclear weapons and the creation of the bombs later dropped over Japan.