The secret cities where the atomic bomb was built

[mhansen2]

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/manhattan-project-cities-exhibition/index.html

"Every baby born in Los Alamos, for example, had a P.O. box in Santa Fe listed as their birth place."

That was PO Box 1663.

 

[candycorn]

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/manhattan-project-cities-exhibition/index.html

"Every baby born in Los Alamos, for example, had a P.O. box in Santa Fe listed as their birth place."

That was PO Box 1663.

Thanks for that. There is a very interesting history at, needless to say, a very interesting time in the US History.

Just one tidbit about the first test in NM...

The Test
Many at the Trinity site, despite the hundreds of man-hours spent preparing for this moment, were still unsure that the bomb would detonate the way it was designed to. There were many theoretical variables that no one at the site could be sure how to predict. Many precautions were taken to prepare for all sorts of doomsday scenarios. Soldiers were posted in several nearby towns in the event that they needed to be evacuated. Groves, who was already concerned for the safety of Amarillo, Texas, a city of 70,000 only 300 miles away, placed a call to New Mexico Governor John J. Dempsey explaining that martial law might need to be implemented in the event of an emergency at the site. The Army Public Relations Department prepared somber explanations in the event that disaster occurred and lives were lost.

There is a wonderful re-enactment of the entire Project called "Atomic Bombers" (lasts about 30 minutes) put on by the LA Theater Works. It has Richard Feynman (sp?) as it's protragonist who is all at once optimistic and pessimistic about the job, his antics during the Project and having to hitchhike to Albuquerque to see his wife who had TB...he would barbecue in the parking lot for her. It is available on line. Great production. I highly recommend it.