The San Francisco Nexus in World War II

In The San Francisco Nexus in World War II: Freedoms Found, Liberties Lost, and the Atomic Bomb , Meza tells the story of important events in the San Francisco Bay Area that have consequences still felt to date. He traces the invention of the atomic bomb, from a speculative design for a nuclear weapon sketched on a chalkboard at Berkeley by theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer and helped made real by “Big Science” that was pioneered by his friend and colleague, experimental physicist Ernest