Word: manhattanization
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Questions of dual loyalty aside, Oppenheimer willingly agreed to direct the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb in 1942. Edward Teller suggested that such a device might ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere and wipe out mankind. But Oppenheimer dismissed Teller’s calculations...
...disappointed to see The Crimson characterize Professor Alex Krieger’s battle against a football stadium in Manhattan as a fight between the city and the professor’s employer, media giant Cablevision (“Prof. in Middle of NYC Land Battle,” News...
Since I graduated from Harvard College in 2003, I have been working as a community organizer for a neighborhood group in Manhattan that is adamantly opposed to the stadium. West Side residents, all of our local elected officials, and more than 60 percent of New Yorkers oppose the stadium, which would overwhelm our community and require an initial taxpayer subsidy of more than $1 billion...
Oppenheimer was just 38 when he was chosen to direct what was called the Manhattan Project. Brilliant and detached, kindly and arrogant, cocksure and tormented, he had long been recognized as a star of the new quantum physics, a man with an acute and elegant mind. During his years as a physics professor at Berkeley and Caltech, he had also signed just about every petition for farmworkers' rights and attended every fund raiser for the Spanish Republic. Oppenheimer always denied that he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. But he never sought to conceal that...
...Oppenheimer's case. For a broader picture of Los Alamos as a unique human settlement, part Western boom town, part scientific prison camp, turn to 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. The Los Alamos in her book is largely the one General Leslie Groves, military chief of the Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy McKibbin, a local woman who managed the tiny Santa Fe office that channeled...