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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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Author Jennet Conant

Format Paperback

Publisher Simon & Schuster

Category World War 2

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In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing and then disappeared into the desert. The women came despite the Army's initial objections, as Oppenheimer insisted that would be the only way to recruit the world-class physicists, and keep them reasonably sane and content during the years it would take to create this revolutionary new weapon.

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Jennet Conant

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Release Date: 2006-05-02
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780743250085

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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