03-01-2011, 06:33 PM
hal wrote: Einstein did not work on the Manhattan project or los alamos and you have to be able to imagine a world before mushroom cloud pictures before you can judge anyone that worked on these projects. They were working to defeat hitler, to get the bomb before he did.
Agreed - my post was made in undue haste. Sorry to go OT again but, to be honest, I don't know exactly what my grandfather's role was in the project (it's not as though he described the specifics to my father, nor would he have been permitted to).
I only know that he was at the TVA site and in Chicago; he taught at a midwestern university at a central location between the two. Before going into the service, my father travelled to Chicago several times with my grandfather during this period but was never aware of the ulterior reasons for these visits; he only knew that my grandfather was guest-lecturing at Northwestern.
I really wish I knew more; there are so many other interesting events involving him and some of the other people around him during that time that they probably merit some historical novelization.