Journey to the Town which did not Exist

We drove out to Los Alamos the town created from scratch to house the Manhattan Project and went to the Bradley Science Museum. It was free which was just as well because it seemed more of a propaganda project than anything else.

There were two main sections one on the history of the project and the other on current science in the area. Only the civilian aspects of that science were referred too but I expect there are still military applications being developed. The history section lauded America proving Hitler's racial theory of a super-race wrong by Jesse Owens gold medals but failed to mention that he returned home to a segregated society where he could not eat or get a  room in a decent hotel and was reduced to making a living by racing against horses at County Fairs. It also failed to mention that Robert Oppenheimer who had managed the project and delivered the Bomb had his security clearance revoked at the end of the war.as a suspected communist sympathiser.

Hidden away at the back of the other "science" section were two boards presenting the alternative view that Japan may have surrendered without the 2 bombs being dropped. These panels were disowned by the museum and said to represent the views of six local groups. 

The science section did not really teach me much science; for example it made much of them having a peta-computer but did not explain the science of getting it but just made claims as to what they hoped would be the result of the research they were doing using it; mapping the neuron map of the brain's sight sensors and better ocean current modelling. It did not relate advances there in terms of the ice caps to global warming.

Nevertheless it was a pleasant scenic drive through mesa hills with banks of clouds which were later to bring rain.