Chicago's 'Oppenheimer' ties: From one family's letter to the Doomsday Clock, the Manhattan Project director's legacy thrives here.
The Oct. 1, 1945 letter is just three paragraphs typed on onion skin paper, under a curiously sparse letterhead containing only a four-digit P.O. Box located somewhere in Santa Fe. But its subject matter — along with the man whose signature is scrawled at the end — would permanently alter the history of the world in ways that proved both groundbreaking and horrifying. “This letter is to ...