October 5, 2001

Tearoom of the Atomic Bomb; the Sacred Purposes of Pain

When the top-secret Manhattan Project came to the "Hill" in Los Alamos, Edith Warner's quiet was suddenly shattered. Fate brought the birth of the atomic bomb and the beginnings of the cold war to the mesa above Edith Warner's tearoom. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, had often visited the Pajarito Plateau in earlier years, and his friendship with Edith Warner began long before he moved to Los Alamos. Later, her little restaurant became a refuge for the elite