The United States created its first nuclear program in 1939 after President Roosevelt received the Einstein-Szilard letter, written by Leo Szilard in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, and signed by Albert Einstein indicating that the US might want to start their nuclear program to keep pace with work being done … Continue reading When Boston had a Manhattan Project Office
My grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project and because he died in July 1945, we, his wife, children, and grandchildren never knew what job her performed or what role he had on the project. At the time of this death, everything he did was protected by security. There were clues here and there that what … Continue reading Research, the Manhattan Project, and my grandfather
Alix Klingenberg, the author of two books of poetry, draws on the natural world, cycles, and seasons to express the light and dark within each of us. Alix and I chatted about her second book of poetry, Bread Sex Trees, and her writing process on Palette, the Follow Your Art blog, and Dead Darlings.
Check out the Dead Darlings blog post where I chatted with Neely Tubati Alexander about her latest book, In a Not So Perfect World, a romantic romp about a video game designer and her hot actor/model neighbor, someone she hardly knows, thrown together in the honeymoon suite of a Caribbean hotel. Neely feels truly honored to … Continue reading Neely Tubati Alexander Interview
Our grandmother would pull out the green box where she kept the letters and photos she treasured.
Author of Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash Check out the Dead Darlings blog to read my interview with Tammy Pasterick on her debut novel that is set against the grim backdrop of Western Pennsylvania’s steel mills and coal mines, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash, is a riveting story of immigrant grit and … Continue reading Interview with Tammy Pasterick
When we bought the house, I could envision the trash heap at the back door of our new home transformed into an herb garden. It wasn’t the first thing I attacked when we bought the house, the front needed more love, but it was on my list. The spring I planned to attack the herb garden … Continue reading The oregano and the white rose
My plans to research the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and to possibly learn more about what my grandfather did there were upended by the pandemic . . .
On a day trip to Santa Fe, we discovered a Manhattan Project site.
The summer I was 10, my father received some mysterious phone calls. Calls that have stuck with me.
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