I thought the women of the Manhattan Project were mostly wives, making homes in secret desert towns while the men built the bomb. I was very wrong. Women were physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists and technicians—and thousands more did crucial work without even being told what they were helping to build.
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It’s taken me two years to get to write about these. Last year I got side-swiped by something that was clearly urgent and important at the time, but was apparently trivial in the long run because I can’t remember it at all now. These two events, however, we still remember. It seems appropriate they happen
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VE Day – Victory in Europe Day – marks the end of the European hostilities of World War II. The Japanese would take another three months to surrender. While there are huge numbers of monuments dedicated to ensuring we never forget the wars and battles we have fought, it seems odd that we don’t celebrate
VE Day – 67 years ago. Read More »