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DeGroot's book is fascinating. However, he must never have visited Los Alamos, NM, the site of the lab where scientists constructed the first atomic bomb. He continually describes Los ALamos as "a desert" which it most assuredly is not. I was born and raised there as the son of a scientist -- it is a beautiful mountain communinty but not a desert at all. I wonder what else DeGroot may have in error!
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The Bomb: A Life by Gerard J. DeGroot
hartshorne, June 16, 2006
DeGroot's book is fascinating. However, he must never have visited Los Alamos, NM, the site of the lab where scientists constructed the first atomic bomb. He continually describes Los ALamos as "a desert" which it most assuredly is not. I was born and raised there as the son of a scientist -- it is a beautiful mountain communinty but not a desert at all. I wonder what else DeGroot may have in error!(5 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)