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

Author: Conant, JennetBrand: Simon & SchusterEdition: ReprintFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 464EAN: 9780743250085Release Date: 08-05-2006Languages: EnglishBinding: PaperbackPart Number: Illustrations, ports.Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inchesDetails: 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 doin