those involved included rosemary lane, who worked as head nurse and isabella carl -- karle, who was ahemist and studied in the specialized -- and specialized in the study of plutonium. this is 40 minutes. denise kieran: i hope you have enjoyed the morning programs. we are now in for some additional treats this afternoon. this section is called "gross of the manhattan project." and i sadly -- i am not sad about filling in, but i'm sad that denise, the author of the -- of "the girls of the atomic city" cannot be here today. and that -- her book reached the new york times' bestseller's list when it came out and it has captivated people with its story of the women in world war ii while working on this top-secret project in oak ridge. and one of the girls, she featured nine girls, is with us this afternoon. and that is rosemary move lane -- rosemary lane. three of them -- three of the girls that are the nine major characters, or not characters, but the people she focused on in her book, are on the voices of the manhattan project website. we were able to take interviews with them. so you ca

and isabella carl, a chemist at the met lab in chicago. first, i will ask rosemary to tell us a little bit about her story and how her experience on the manhattan project transformed her life. the mics need to be about two inches from your lips. is that working? can we dim the lights a little bit? it's blinding up here. that's better, thank you. >> much better, thank you. >> mic? >> now it's off again? >> no. >> i came to oak ridge in august of 1943. i was a new -- relatively new graduate from nursing school. i graduated one year ahead of that time and i had been working -- continuing to work at the hospital that i had finished my training in and then had -- was going to school part time and i got a phone call one day, and it was a former instructor of mine. and she said, oh, i've got something to talk to you about. i'd like to meet you for lunch which we did. she, it turned out, had become a recruiter for the manhattan project for nurses because they were getting ready -- she was going to help staff a hospital that was in the process of b

those involved included rosemary lane, who worked as head nurse and isabella carl -- karle, who was amist and studied in the specialized -- and specialized in the study of plutonium. this is 40 minutes. denise kiera