Bibliograph

109 East Palace, [Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos], Jennet Conant

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109 East Palace, [Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos], Jennet Conant

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eng

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historybiography

Main title

109 East Palace

Oclc number

59760314

Responsibility statement

Jennet Conant

Sub title

[Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos]

Summary

Conant offers a human look at the brilliant physicists who for more than two years, along with their families, lived, laughed, despaired and rejoiced in a secret, sequestered, for some claustrophobic city in the New Mexico desert. Despite its grand name, 109 East Palace was the nondescript office in Santa Fe that served as a gateway to the Los Alamos complex. The narrative is framed by the perspective of Dorothy McKibben, who, in running that office, issuing security passes and coordinating logistics, was, says Conant, the "gatekeeper" to the hidden world of Los Alamos

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