At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest\'s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a Secret Manhattan Project laboratory.
She is the granddaughter of Manhattan Project administrator and industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas..
A former newspaper journalist and assistant director in higher education communications, she was raised in Boston and San Diego and lives in Indiana.
About the Author: Linda Carrick Thomas is a freelance writer and editor.
Weaving Manhattan Project history with the life and Work of the scientist, industrial leader and singing-showman Thomas, Polonium in the Playhouse offers a fascinating look at the vast and complicated program that changed world history and introduces the men and women who raced against time to build the initiator for the bomb.
The elegant glass-roofed building belonged to his wife\'s family.
As one of the nation\'s first science administrators, Thomas was responsible for choreographing the plutonium Work at Los Alamos and the Project\'s key laboratories.
Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves to coordinate Manhattan Project Chemistry and metallurgy.
The Work was directed by industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas who had been chosen by J.
With the help of a Soviet spy working undercover at the site, it was also key to the Soviet Union\'s atomic bomb program.
Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse was transformed into a Polonium processing facility, providing a critical radioactive ingredient for the bomb initiator-the mechanism that triggered a chain reaction.
Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project\'s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the most classified portions of the Manhattan Project.
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest\'s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a Secret Manhattan Project laboratory
