Jennet Conant
Born
in Seoul, Korea, Republic of
July 15, 1959
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“One popular story had it that Los Alamos was a wartime plant that made windshield wipers for submarines. Others insisted that workers were actually assembling submarines in a factory. This theory persisted even though there was no deep water for hundreds of miles around: against all reason, people actually believed the army had cut a secret passage to float the subs down the Rio Grande.”
― 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
― 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
“For the first few weeks in Santa Fe, Oppenheimer and his key staff worked out of the office at 109 East Palace Avenue in the early mornings and made daily trips up to Los Alamos to inspect the progress of the construction. "The laboratories at the site were in a sketchy state, but that did not deter the workers," Dorothy wrote of those hectic early days. "In the morning buses, consisting of station wagons, sedans, or trucks, would leave 109 and pick up the men at the ranches and take them up the Hill. Occasionally, a driver would forget to stop at one or another of the ranches and the stranded and frustrated scientists would call in a white heat.”
― 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
― 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
“the Carnegie money was only a drop in the bucket. He believed it was vital that science and technology were broadly mobilized for the war, which would provide him with a way to address what he saw as by far the most pressing military problem—the need to rapidly improve the country’s air defenses.”
― Tuxedo Park
― Tuxedo Park
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