Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 did you say you were married already at that point or no . No. I got married at the end of the war when i got back. Thats how i got back. I talked general foul into letting me come back and get married in berkeley, california. Tell me a little bit more, what was it like at loss alamo with everybody there and nobody can talk about what theyre doing. Los alamos, first place, it sat up on top of a mountain. It was a boys school at one time, a very exclusive boys school, so to get there you had to drive up a road that went up the side of the mountain. I mean if you wept off the side of that road you had a nice roll down a hill. Then when you got to a guard gate, they stopped you and got your identity and so forth. From there you go in and the first thing you came to was the technical area, the beginning of the technical area. Now it was up on the level part of the property and thats where a drug store was and a Grocery Store and so forth, and where the original boys school used to be. You came to that first. Then when you went over that hill to the bottom thats where all the military personnel lived, the engineers, the military i mean the what do you call them . Special you know, the army police. Mps . The mps had their barracks and you went all through that down to the bottom. When you got to the bottom of the hill you began to get into the various areas where everything was restricted. You couldnt go there unless you worked there. There were many sites back in these hills where only the people who worked on that particular component could go to work. I couldnt go wondering around somebody elses site. I was estricted to my site where i worked. So the place spread out quite a long way. Ive been back since and its much larger now. Is that where you met your wife . Yes. Tell me a little bit about that or what she was doing there . As i said she worked for the university of california at the Radiation Lab at berkeley, and she was a single girl. My recollection is, when i met her, she might have been working at a book store, im not sure. She had gotten her degree from the university. She was working for the university and she had a side job working at a book store in berkeley. I met her there. The university of california asked her to go to los alamos. She was single and had nothing else more important to do, so she said what do you want me to do when i get there . Well, youre going to be a secretary to admiral parsons and ramsey. Youll work in that office. She had the talent. She could, you know, do anything in the secretarial field, plus a college degree, so she was she was the lead person in the office. There was another girl by the name of hazel greenbacker, who was also a secretary, but she was not college material. Thats how mary claire got started and i met her just walking back and forth in the halls and as i pointed out, you know, i stopped and gawked at her one day and she wanted to know what the hell i was looking at. I told her the best looking legs in los alamos. And that did it. I asked her for a date were going to leave this American History tv program on the development of the atomic bomb to go to a Senate Armed Services hearing. You can watch all programs at our website cspan. Org. And live now on cspan 3 where members of the Senate Armed Services committee are holding a hearing this morning to advance the nominees for the pentagon. The committee will consider four nominees including president trumps pick of jason abend