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(More customer reviews)Much has been written about the technical and scientific work done at Los Alamos, but this book tells about the human side of the effort, from the perspective of a wife of one of the scientists who was recruited for the project. It paints a tale of a families uprooted from their homes, living in conditions that would be considered intolerable by contemporary standards, completely isolated from their relatives. It describes the horrific hours of work by the scientists and other workers as well as numerous other sacrifices, by people who *knew* that they might possibly be the only obstacle to totalitarian world domination.
One of the thoughts I couldn't help but consider after reading this is that Americans in the 1940s were made of tougher stuff than we are today. I'm far from confident that, in this day and age, we'd rise to the occasion in the same manner as the heroes of '1663'.
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As the author herself put it, this is "the lives of men and women who lived and worked in grimsecrecy to hasten the end of the war." It is the story of stressful lives, cryptic conversations between husbands and wives, leaky faucets and water shotrages, censored mail, and sharing a post office box with every other person in town- PO Box !1663, Santa Fe, NM. Life was filled with difficulties, but it was also filled with determination to overcome the hardships and reach a goal. Tying it all together was a sense of pride, of patriotism, and communal spirit that surpassed anything they knew before or after those days of the manhattan Project.
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