They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan
Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the
mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
They were greeted by Dorothy McKibbin, an attractive widow who
was the least likely person imaginable to run a front for a
clandestine defense laboratory. They stepped through her threshold
into a parallel universe -- the desert hideaway where Robert
Oppenheimer and a team of world-famous scientists raced to build
the first atomic bomb before Germany and bring World War II to an
end.
Despite all the obstacles, Oppie managed to forge a vibrant
community at Los Alamos through the sheer force of his personality.
Dorothy devoted herself to taking care of him and his crew, and
supported him through the terrifying preparations for the test
explosion at Trinity and the harrowing aftermath of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
In this deeply moving account, Conant reveals an enigmatic man,
who served his country at tremendous personal cost and whose
singular achievement, and subsequent undoing, is at the root of our
present nuclear predicament.
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