109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los AlamosFrom the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer and the world's best scientists to produce the atomic bomb and win World War II. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U. S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa