ImageHanford, of course, is the top-secret nuclear production site affiliated with the Manhattan Project. They emerged like so many bubbles, lifting, writhing, then going flat again.”What’s a mid-1940s girl in pin curls to do? Also rightfully, Mildred struggles with her complicity — as a woman ignored, she aches to dish out brutality. Not unlike the atomic bomb, she radiates destruction, either damaging or being damaged by almost everyone around her. “You’ll go far for a woman,” her boss purrs, and she wants that, like a soldier wants to shoot, like a bomb wants to drop.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2019 09:56 UTC