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Were Manhattan project scientists really ordered around like that? Was anyone working at Los Alamos against their will?
by tomjakubowski 3y ago
Were Manhattan project scientists really ordered around like that? Was anyone working at Los Alamos against their will?
- Retric 3y agoI don’t know. The scientists apparently had some wiggle room: An offer was made to the Princeton team to be redeployed there. "Like a bunch of professional soldiers," Wilson later recalled, "we signed up, en masse, to go to Los Alamos.” But the subtext was there was a draft going on and most of them would be eligible unless they were working on such a critical project.