In a brief vacation I saw two very moving historical sites.

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8. There are several businesses in that "town" that have "Secret City" in the name.

There really isn't a "town" to speak of, but rather a series of strip malls melded together.

This surprised us.

As for the historic nature of the "secret city," all this was true.

Very few people, including many scientists, had any idea what the purpose of the complex actually was.

In terms of operations, the women trained to run the Calutrons had higher productivity than Ph.D. level scientists doing the same thing, because the scientists focused on understanding problems, whereas the young women merely pushed on.

On the Farm Hall transcripts of bugging of the German nuclear scientists on hearing of the atomic bomb, one of the first remarks was one of incredulity along the lines of "these fellows have separated isotopes!"

It should have been "these women have actually separated isotopes" even if the women didn't know what they were doing.