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At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the most Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the classified portions of the Manhattan Project.
Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse used to be transformed into a polonium processing facility, providing a critical radioactive ingredient for the bomb initiator—the mechanism that triggered a chain reaction. With the assistance of a Soviet spy working undercover at the site, it used to be also key to the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb program.
The work used to be directed by industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas who had been chosen by J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves to coordinate Manhattan Project chemistry and metallurgy. As one of the most nation’s first science administrators, Thomas used to be liable for choreographing the plutonium work at Los Alamos and the Project’s key laboratories. The elegant glass-roofed building belonged to his wife’s circle of relatives.
Weaving Manhattan Project history with the life and work of the scientist, industrial leader and making a song-showman Thomas, Polonium in the Playhouse offers a captivating take a look at the vast and complicated program that changed world history and introduces the women and men who raced against time to build the initiator for the bomb.
Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse used to be transformed into a polonium processing facility, providing a critical radioactive ingredient for the bomb initiator—the mechanism that triggered a chain reaction. With the assistance of a Soviet spy working undercover at the site, it used to be also key to the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb program.
The work used to be directed by industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas who had been chosen by J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves to coordinate Manhattan Project chemistry and metallurgy. As one of the most nation’s first science administrators, Thomas used to be liable for choreographing the plutonium work at Los Alamos and the Project’s key laboratories. The elegant glass-roofed building belonged to his wife’s circle of relatives.
Weaving Manhattan Project history with the life and work of the scientist, industrial leader and making a song-showman Thomas, Polonium in the Playhouse offers a captivating take a look at the vast and complicated program that changed world history and introduces the women and men who raced against time to build the initiator for the bomb.
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