Los Alamos Final Notes

Before leaving the subject of Los Alamos, the town where the atomic bomb was invented, I highly recommend that you read Joseph Kanon's murder mystery titled, "Los Alamos." The story is fiction but the setting is Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project while the bomb was being developed and tested. It is a terrific read as well as a love story to the area around Santa Fe and Los Alamos. It makes you want to visit the area.
On a personal note; my visit to Los Alamos was an unexpected link to a part of my early life. When I was 5 years old, my family was sent to live in Japan as part of the US military presence there following World War II. It was only a few years after the US had dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan that ended the war. My family couldn't get military housing, so we found ourselves living in a Japanese mountain village where very few people had ever seen an American. There should have been so much hatred and resentment, but the experience was one of the best of my life. Visiting Los Alamos was like coming back to the origins of that experience.