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Book Review of 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
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Very interesting book about the human side of the Manhattan Project. Not a lot of time spent on the Russian spying and a bit too much on the personal travails of Oppenheimer mostly afterwards. But excellent description of what life was like for the scientists and families.