1940's Government and Politics | "Letters from Los Alamos"

Letters

By: Phyllis Fisher

Date: November 1944, August 1945

Source: Fisher, Phyllis. "Letters from Los Alamos." November 1944, August 1945. Reprinted in America Firsthand, edited by Robert D. Marcus and David Burner, vol. 2, Readings from Reconstruction to the Present, 4th ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

About the Author: Phyllis Fisher and her son moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1944. Her husband, physicist Leon Fisher, was sent to Los Alamos to work on developing the first nuclear bomb for the United States government through the so-called Manhattan Project. The entire project was classified, so the Fishers could not tell family or friends where they were going or why. After August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the entire world learned what had been done in Los Alamos. Phyllis Fisher then could write to her loved...