{"id":212411,"date":"2026-04-28T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212411\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:52:02","slug":"women-in-the-manhattan-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212411\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the Manhattan Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women played important roles across the Manhattan Project complex. They worked as nurses, teachers,\u00a0librarians, and secretaries. They sold and processed war bonds, worked the desks at dormitories and post exchanges, welded, and even monitored the control panels of the calutron.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Kathy Keith at Los Alamos National Laboratory <a aria-label=\"Read more about wrote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lanl.gov\/discover\/publications\/connections\/2018-03\/spotlight.php\" title=\"Read more about wrote\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;In 1943 Manhattan Project leaders J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie R. Groves scoured the country looking for anyone that would help achieve their goal: to end World War II by building a \u201cgadget\u201d that exploited the newly discovered phenomenon of nuclear fission. They did not discriminate; women or men, young or old, Ph.D. or technical experience\u2014all were considered if they had something to contribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women played important roles across the Manhattan Project complex. They worked as nurses, teachers,\u00a0librarians, and secretaries. They sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}