It took just 27 months to bring the physicists’ theoretical dreams into nightmare reality.

If Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the story of the making of the first atomic bomb from the scientist’s viewpoint (mostly), Jennet Conant’s 109 East Palace is that story told from the viewpoint of the support staff and families of those scientists (mostly). It is principally the story of Dorothy McKibben, a Santa Fe widow…

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