Good Reads meta-data Rating: 4 from ‎1,234 votes. 425 pages. Verdict: not the biography of Oppenheimer I was looking for. The development of Atomic Bomb in twenty-seven months on a mesa in New Mexico is quite a story from theory to practice. The book offers a near day-by-day account mostly of the administrivia of Los … Continue reading ‘109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos’ (2006) by Jennet Conant.