A fragment of contemporary history. The atomic bomb and physicists at Los Alamos

Abstract

This article is a piece of contemporary history which shows the relationship between the odyssey of an immigrant Asturian, the Great Depression in America, the Spanish Civil War, some physicists at Los Alamos, the first atomic bomb and the nuclear test North Korea's October 2006. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945 were developed in the laboratory at Los Alamos (New Mexico). The Manhattan Project brought together the best American and European scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer.