Host Geoff Wawro speaks with Author Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of FDR's Chief Scientist James B. Conant, about the atomic bomb and the clandestine place in New Mexico where it was made. ''109 East Palace'' takes its name from the nondescript office in Santa Fe where thousands of young physicists reported, before being whisked away to the secret world of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. To download this Podcast onto your personal digital music player, simply copy and paste this url into your Podcast program: Hardcover History Podcast (xml file) For more information on Podcasts visit our help section .
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ''father of the atomic bomb,'' was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. An expert in quantum theory and nuclear physics, he was enlisted into the fledgling U.S....
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear...
00:25 Quantum Optics and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 02:12 Bizarre Applications of Strange Phenomena 04:00 The Los Alamos Project – Building the Bomb 07:24 The Los Alamos Project –...
Jack Keane, Retired Vice Chief of Staff, US Army, Member, Defense Policy Review Board /// Jennet Conant, Author, "109 East Place: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Aimos."
Jack Keane, Retired Vice Chief of Staff, US Army, Member, Defense Policy Review Board /// Jennet Conant, Author, "109 East Place: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Aimos."
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became the first civilians to be executed for espionage in U.S. history. The couple had been found guilty of conspiring to transmit atomic secrets to...
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