For Want of a Nail

by Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine, Futurefarmers

Three nails for J. Robert Oppenheimer, more than half a century after the Manhattan Project.

For Want of a Nail takes as its starting point a series of curious memoranda sent from J. Robert Oppenheimer's office in October 1943 and archived in the Los Alamos Historical Museum, in which the eminent scientist repeatedly requests a nail in the wall upon which he could hang his hat. The persistence and specificity of the request...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949484041
• ISBN13: 9781949484045
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: No Place Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.4"