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

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

Jennet Conant

448 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1943, J. 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. Thousan...

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