Quotes from Jennet Conant

Loomis was not any easier a father than he was a husband. He set the bar very high when it came to his three sons. After he cashed out of Bonbright, he awarded each of the three boys a substantial share of their inheritance - roughly $1 million - on the theory that it was never too early to begin charting one's own course. The youngest, Henry, was only fourteen when he was given complete financial independence.

But after a sojourn in the Adirondacks restored his health, he became persuaded of the curative powers of the mountain air and devoted himself to the study of respiratory problems. He

his deeply ingrained belief that the rich should repay their debt to society. Throughout his life, Alfred Loomis would feel that moneymaking alone was not a satisfactory existence.

one of the first to provide poor invalids with a level of care that had previously been available only to the rich. In

Love," as he now conceived of it, involved "slow growth, many slowly formed bonds, tests by vicissitudes as well as pleasure, mutual sharing of esthetic experiences, humor, sensory things from food through music to passion, etc." Any truly lasting relationship, he concluded would necessitate "a lengthy apprenticeship.

Groves' refusal to allow key project members to travel by air meant that the British had to come by train, and the Super Chief, which would be bringing them west after they changed trains in Chicago, was so chronically late that when it actually pulled into Lamy on time one afternoon no one was surprised to discover it was the previous day's train.

her sisters die and then falling under the same shadow

a gaudy beacon of hope amid all the uncertainty.

There is no great trick to doing research," Ogilvy later observed. "The problem is to get people to use it—particularly when the research reveals that you have been making mistakes." Most people, he found, had "a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost—for support, not for illumination.

Lindbergh's America Firsters, and the Nazi-run fifth columnists

One popular story had it that Los Alamos was a wartime plant that made windshield wipers for submarines. Others insisted that workers were actually assembling submarines in a factory. This theory persisted even though there was no deep water for hundreds of miles around: against all reason, people actually believed the army had cut a secret passage to float the subs down the Rio Grande.

probably the most enduring rumor about Los Alamos, no doubt prompted by Dorothy's scavenging scarce baby clothes and cribs for new mothers on the Hill, was that it was a home for pregnant WACs.

the Carnegie money was only a drop in the bucket. He believed it was vital that science and technology were broadly mobilized for the war, which would provide him with a way to address what he saw as by far the most pressing military problem—the need to rapidly improve the country's air defenses.

Greenglass was arrested in June 1950, six months after Fuchs, and received a thirty-year sentence. His case might only have been a footnote had it not blown the lid off the far greater treachery of the Rosenbergs and triggered the events that would lead to the most infamous espionage trial of the century. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953.