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

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos ReviewEverybody knows J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller and many of the military minds that directed the effort to develop the atomic bomb. Nobody outside of Los Alamos knew Dorothy McKibben. McKibben who ran 109 East Palace was like the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of this war time "Hamlet"-like drama; she viewed the action not from the heart of the research but from the outside at the gateway where she issued security passes, helped new personnel settle in, dealt with complaints about water pressure, food supplies, etc. She knew everything and nothing about the community she helped as she wasn't privy to the secret goal of the Los Alamos community.
While author Jennet Conant doesn't ignore the work they were trying to accomplish, she focuses on the human element that made it possible for the work to occur. Conant provides a detailed and intimate look into the insular community that labored to build the ultimate bomb to finish the "ultimate war". One of the most fascinating sections of the book called "Summer Lighning" deals with Klaus Fuchs who arrived at Los Alamos after doing research for the Manhattan Project on gaseous diffusion. He came to help figure out the implosion problem at the request of Peierls a German physcist working in the US. McKibben never had a suspicion that Fuchs might be betraying the secret work at Los Alamos to the Soviets until it was too late.
Conant who it is noted is the granddaughter of James B. Conant (the chief administrator on the Manhattan Project)has a unique insider's perspective. Conant doesn't shy away from the issue about Oppenheimer's loyalty; she reports that Captain Peer de Silva took an immediate dislike to Oppenheimer and believed, based on his file, that Oppenheimer would betray the United States in a hot second. De Silva went so far as to write a memo to Washington stating that very point creating havoc for General Groves the military head of the operation who knew how much they needed Oppenheimer to make the project work. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos showing what life was like inside the camp, Conant's book looks at a pivotal time in history from a very different perspective--the human perspective and she wisely allows this perspective to dominate her book differienating it from others that examine much of the same time and material.109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Overview

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