109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos 9781416585428, 1416585427

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
 9781416585428, 1416585427

Table of contents :
Intro
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Chapter One: Charmed
Chapter Two: A Most Improbable Choice
Chapter Three: The Bluest Eyes I've Ever Seen
Chapter Four: Cowboy Boots and All
Chapter Five: The Gatekeeper
Chapter Six: The Professor and the General
Chapter Seven: Summer Camp
Chapter Eight: Lost Almost
Chapter Nine: Welcome Distractions
Chapter Ten: Nothing Dangerous
Chapter Eleven: The Big Shot
Chapter Twelve: Baby Boom
Chapter Thirteen: Summer Lightning
Chapter Fourteen: A Bad Case of the Jitters
Chapter Fifteen: Playing with Fire
Chapter Sixteen: A Dirty Trick Chapter Seventeen: Everything Was DifferentChapter Eighteen: A Rain of Ruin
Chapter Nineteen: By Our Works We Are Committed
Chapter Twenty: Elysian Dreamer
Chapter Twenty-One: Scorpions in a Bottle
Chapter Twenty-Two: Fallout
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Author's Note on Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits
Copyright

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