109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos -- Jennet Conant, Paperback

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos -- Jennet Conant, PaperbackFrom 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.

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