The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

Author: Eileen Welsome (2000)

In order to learn about the health effects of plutonium, the Manhattan Project’s medical doctors secretly injected eighteen patients across the country with plutonium. This was covered up, even from the patients themselves, for over fifty years

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Author: Denise Kiernan (2013)

The true story of the thousands of women who worked on the Manhattan Project in the secret city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II. Nine women are highlighted in this book: janitors, chemists, secretaries, even factory workers who unknowingly separated uranium.