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.
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.