October 17, 201510 yr Neat site of oral histories of the Bomb project: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/rose-bethes-interview That one linked above is with Rose Bethe, wife of Hans Bethe, physicist who ran the so-called Theoretical Division at Los Alamos (the other 3 divisions being Experimental Physics, Chemistry & Metallurgy, and Ordnance). In his career before and after Los Alamos, Bethe tossed off little bagatelles like figuring out how the sun works.
October 18, 201510 yr Author Here we go! First of a dozen interviews here with General Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers who ran and drove the entire Manhattan Project including picking Oppenheimer to run Los Alamos. A fascinating person: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/general-leslie-grovess-interview-part-1
October 18, 201510 yr Active Members Here we go! First of a dozen interviews here with General Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers who ran and drove the entire Manhattan Project including picking Oppenheimer to run Los Alamos. A fascinating person: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/general-leslie-grovess-interview-part-1 LOL...I'm just now getting through your first link. This is beginning to feel like homework. You are the best AS.
October 18, 201510 yr Active Members It MUST be homework if you are not OUT having fun. Best regards, RA1
October 18, 201510 yr Author LOL...I'm just now getting through your first link. This is beginning to feel like homework. You are the best AS. I would be careful not read too much at any one sitting. But these interviews, more than a lot of other Manhattan Project stuff I've read, are a really engrossing firsthand look at what all it took to manage and drive and force to successful completion this huge, almost impossible scientific, engineering & industrial enterprise.
October 18, 201510 yr Author Like this one with Kenneth Nichols, Groves's no. 2 for the whole project: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/general-kenneth-nichols-interview-part-1
October 18, 201510 yr Active Members http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130424.html Not about the Manhattan Project but I predict AS will find it fascinating. Best regards, RA1
October 18, 201510 yr Active Members Off to Sunday Brunch....Will have to put The Manhattan Project on the back burner for now.
October 18, 201510 yr Author Off to Sunday Brunch....Will have to put The Manhattan Project on the back burner for now. Don't forget to eat your vegetables.
October 18, 201510 yr Author http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130424.html Not about the Manhattan Project but I predict AS will find it fascinating. Best regards, RA1 Dang! Link does not work for me. P.S. This one does: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ It shows this! Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan
October 18, 201510 yr Active Members http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130424.html Try this. Best regards, RA1
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