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109 East Palace

Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

By: Jennet Conant

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Paperback | 8 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.

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. 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. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.

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"The Manhattan Project was a chapter of history rich in the drama of human strengths and frailties, as Jennet Conant chronicles in her illuminating 109 East Palace.... Yet, for all the doubts and hardships, the scientists and workers at Los Alamos were part of something extraordinary.... Thanks to Conant's vivid book, we understand why."
-- BusinessWeek

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Preface
Charmed
A Most Improbable Choice
The Bluest Eyes I've Ever Seen
Cowboy Boots and All
The Gatekeeper
The Professor and the General
Summer Camp
Lost Almost
Welcome Distractions
Nothing Dangerous
The Big Shot
Baby Boom
Summer Lightning
A Bad Case of the Jitters
Playing with Fire
A Dirty Trick
Everything Was Different
A Rain of Ruin
By Our Works We Are Committed
Elysian Dreamer
Scorpions in a Bottle
Fallout
Author's Note on Sources
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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109 East Palace

Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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