How did a school in the mountains become the birthplace of the atomic bomb?
Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, once a day and night school in the heart of the mountains, became America's most secret scientific center during World War II.
A group of the greatest physicists of the 20th century gathered in this place to complete the Manhattan Project. The story of Los Alamos is the story of the birth of the atomic bomb, the competition of scientists, the strange life in a hidden city and the moment that changed the world forever.
General Leslie Groves, the military director of the Manhattan Project, was looking for a place that would allow for traffic control and the protection of classified information. In contrast, Robert Oppenheimer, the laboratory's future scientific director, needed a space where scientists could freely collaborate and share their scientific ideas. | Online news.