The wives of Los Alamos - TaraShea Nesbit

Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge,
Paris, London and Chicago - and arrived in New Mexico ready for
adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to
hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret,
including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in
barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town
wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that
didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were
constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they
couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they
were strangers, they joined together - babies were born, friendships
were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and
even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled
with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most
destructive force in mankind's history - the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.