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by tomjakubowski 1116 days ago
Were Manhattan project scientists really ordered around like that? Was anyone working at Los Alamos against their will?
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I don’t know.

The scientists apparently had some wiggle room: An offer was made to the Princeton team to be redeployed there. "Like a bunch of professional soldiers," Wilson later recalled, "we signed up, en masse, to go to Los Alamos.”

But the subtext was there was a draft going on and most of them would be eligible unless they were working on such a critical project.