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...Conant witnessed the culmination of the bomb development efforts, known as the "Manhattan Project," when he viewed the dawn testing of the finalized atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico...
...Conant, a former managing editor of The Crimson, was later quoted by James Hershberg in his book James B. Conant as describing the event in this notebook: "My first impression remains the most vivid, a cosmic phenomenon like an eclipse. The whole sky suddenly full of white light like the end of the world...
Demonstrating Conant's struggle with the international implications of nuclear arms, Hershberg writes that Conant compared the Alamogordo test to the apocalypse: "Perhaps my imagination was only premature on a time scale of years...
Although The Crimson and The Lampoon called Conant a "warmonger" in a halftime skit at the 1941 Harvard-Yale football game, the University president's personal stake in the war was much more complex...
...only did Conant manage the University as its students rapidly marched off to war, both of his sons, James and Ted, were serving in 1945 in the Pacific. At the same time, Conant's wife Patty was working with returned wartime casualties in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital...