David Hawkins: In the shadow of the bomb.

Writing on David Hawkins'  100th birthday brought back memories of meeting some of his long time friends, especially those who worked with him at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb project during the Second World War (I've written about Philip Morrison and Frank Oppenheimer on this blog).

Born out of a small research program begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people, including the world's foremost scientists and thinkers —and it was operated under a shroud of absolute secrecy. 

As well as being one of the many scientists at Los Alamos (including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr, Henry Stimson, Philip Morrison, Stan Ulam, Viktor Weiskopf, and many others), David was the project's official historian - see Project Y, by David Hawkins.

Today, with yet another filing and documenting the past project in my head, I re read David's article:
In the shadow of the bomb.

The best way to introduce it is to simply say, "Reader, take some time and read it."

I'm not going to retype it. Instead I'm going to scan it.
So, half an hour from now it'll be here for you to read and to ponder........

OK here's the first four pages:

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