I read this book since it was lent to me by a retired USAF Lt.Col. and a WWII vet.The dust jacket says "a work of nonfiction." Well...Most of the work deals with the secret/not so secret work done in the infamous Area 51 id the Nevada desert. It was interesting reading about the development of th...
I was glad that I read 2/3 of this book because I learned a lot about the scientists who used their considerable gifts to further the German war machine. I also learned that our own government had to choose between punishing the guilty and hiring them to further our own scientific and military ad...
General Advisory Committee, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, October 30, 1949, LANL. 2 facing an unknown fate: Eyewitness information is from interviews with Alfred O’Donnell, 2009–2013; interviews with Jim Freedman, 2009–2011. See also O’Keefe, Nuclear Hostages; Ogle, Daily Diary, 1954, LANL; DNA,...