From the author of the bestselling Tuxedo Park comes the story of those thousands who came to a Secret desert, where the world\'s leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end.
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..
They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert.
Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-Secret military facility. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.
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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 US government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 1943, J.
Winner of the MPBA award for adult fiction.
From the author of the bestselling Tuxedo Park comes the story of those thousands who came to a Secret desert, where the world\'s leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end
