Name: What Life Was Like While Working on the Manhattan Project
Uploaded: 2021-05-20T15:40:56.000Z
Duration: 11 min 15 s
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at a university, a place residents were discouraged

from using their real names, and where no one was

It was a military facility housing the world's most highly

top secret and dangerous scientific research project,

and the people living there were building an atomic bomb.

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When the US government decided to proceed

they knew maintaining secrecy would be essential.

With somewhere in the neighborhood of 150,000 people

working on the project, physical isolation would be necessary.

Eventually, they decided to place the research facility

at a remote location in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Mail in and out of the town was heavily monitored.

Scientists weren't even allowed to have magazine subscriptions

because the military was worried it would look suspicious.

The facility was surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire

Entering required passing through multiple security

checkpoints, and every single person involved needed security

Despite all this, the government was still worried.

They understood that yappy employees were, in many ways,

Leaders would constantly remind the scientists

that the things they saw, heard, and did within the ground

To really underscore this point, a billboard

was installed in a highly visible location

When you're trying to keep a secret as big as the Manhattan

Project, there's no such thing as being too security

Scientists were forbidden from telling anyone, even

their spouses, about their work, and merely leaving

One measure taken to prevent scientists and employees

from spreading the identities of other workers on the project

was to have everyone live under an assumed name.

In this way, a scientist couldn't even accidentally tell

anyone else who was involved since they didn't know who they

Despite the fact that they were building in a bomb there,

Los Alamos was an ideal place to have children.

Indeed, while the bomb was being developed,

However, when it came to the Manhattan Project,

everything was top secret, even the babies,

so birth certificates from those born at Los Alamos

Mexico as their place of birth rather than the town's name.

the address used for absolutely everything shipped

to the facility, whether it was a postcard

The librarian at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project

by her close friend, lead scientist J Robert Oppenheimer.

the sensitive materials stored in the library.

However, getting the scientists to observe the strict secrecy

On one of her nightly security sweeps through the library,

Serber discovered some technical specs that

She confronted the scientist responsible,

who sarcastically retorted that there was no need

to worry about this particular report falling into enemy hands

Regardless of her efforts and her connections,

Serber herself eventually came under suspicion

In 1943, she was investigated and the Army recommended firing

Luckily for her, Oppenheimer dropped the power bomb,

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What Life Was Like While Working on the Manhattan Project

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