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Their average years was 25. They originated from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago - and arrived in New Mexico ready for trip, or at least resigned to it. But desire quickly considered hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military services town where everything was a key, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They resided in barely completed houses with P. O. pack addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit for a task that didn't exist so far as the public understood. Though they were strangers, they joined collectively - adapting to a surroundings as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the banalities of everyday life and the dilemma of scientific breakthrough. And while the bomb was being invented, infants were delivered, friendships were forged, children was raised, and Los Alamos gradually altered from an left behind school over a hill into a real community: one which was strained by what they couldn't say out loud, the characters they couldn't send home, the liberty they didn't have. However the end of the battle would bring a great deal larger challenges to the people of Los Alamos, as the experts and their own families struggled with the responsibility of the contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind. The Wives of Los Alamos is a novel that sheds light onto one of the strangest & most monumental research projects in modern background. From the testament to a impressive band of women who carved out a life for themselves, regardless of the chaos of the battle and the shroud of intense secrecy.
