it was not that los alamos needed me. >> tell us about your road to los alamos. informed by one of my professors that there was this serve andhere i could make use of what little training in physics i artie had, and it would be a really good thing to do. it was completely secret. i would be somewhere in the united states, by would not be able to tell my family where, and would not see them again until the end of the war. that was really all they would tell me, except that they advised me to go that way. i did. what happened was at the end of the semester, i informed by board that i was ready. i was drafted, sent to basic , anding in the louisiana somewhere in the middle of the basic training, i was pulled out , and sent, very dramatically, on a train was about 10 other young men with orders, which east to oakirst ridge, the north to cincinnati, and so on. finally, to a train which took .s to los alamos it was a very interesting demonstration. i realize later of the power of the project. not only could they pull us out, just when people were needed to fight an imm

and finally to a train which took us to -- to los alamos. it was a very interesting demonstration i relaxed later of the power of that project because not only could they pull us out just when people were needed to fight in the infantry, but even in traveling, whenever we got to any stations, we are given immediate irony. in st. louis, we were given our own railroad car and found a train to political as. then when we arrived in los alamos, the entry port train station to santa fe, we got off this train and we found ourselves in the middle of a desert. we were tired and dirty and discouraged. we could've sat down and cried except we were ashamed. but after a while, a car came for us and took us to los alamos. also in the army was david green glass, the notorious by -- spy. he was not in my barracks. my contact with him was indirect, but it has some affect. we had a mutual friend, a fellow soldier, who had an apartment in albuquerque where he met his wife weekends. she was also in the army, but not at los alamos, but nearby. and at one time hi

it wasn't that los alamos needed me. >> tell us about your road to los alamos. murray: well, i was informed by one of my professors that there was this project where i could serve and make use of what little training in physics i already had and that it would be a really good thing to do and, but, it was completely secret, i would be somewhere in the united states, but i would not be able to tell my family where and would not see them again until the end of the war. and that was really all he would tell me it, except that he advised me to go that way, and so i did. what happened was, at the end of the semester, i informed my draft board that i was ready, i was duly drafted, i was sent to basic training in louisiana, and somewhere in the middle of basic training, i was pulled out and sent very dramatically on a train with about 10 other young men with sealed orders which carried us first east to oak ridge and the north to cincinnati and so on, and finally to a train which took us to los alamos. it was a very interesting demonstration, i realized later, of the pow

it's a story of men and women who built the first atomic bomb in los alamos, new mexico and everything we know about the world, surveillance, secrets, was all sort of born in this time and place, so it makes for explosive drama. >> how much of it is based on truth? >> so much of it is based on truth. but the characters at the center of the show are fictional. so it gives the writers an opportunity to kind of draw parallels to the world we live in now, which makes the show so exciting, it's like historical science fiction. >> did you know anything about the making of the atom bomb? >> how long have you known me? >> 25 years. >> do you think i knew anything about the nuclear -- >> do you know now? >> yes, i know a lot more than i did before. when you are an actor, you weren't paying attention to physics in high school. you were wondering about the school play. >> how about "big stone gap ". he's a great writer, wrote the book. you went to big stone gap. >> we filmed it all there in the town where the story is set. that's me kissing ashley judd. >> what was that like? >> kissing ash lay l

i'm from los alamos. i submitted my testimony. i don't think -- apparently the charge doesn't want me to read the math so i'll summarize it if you don't mind and ask that you submit it for the record. i'm very honored to be here. thank you to -- for inviting me. and i will not use math. i'll just say a few words. i'med as -- listed as senior fellow from los alamos. this is my daytime job, but this is not necessarily a los alamos project. it's something i have been working on and off since 9/11. on that day the department of energy and the department of defense were kind enough to send an airplane out to new mexico to get dr. huban gowadia, to come back here to pursue some projects we had been looking into before 9/11 on unusual threats to the united states. one of which was there a concern there might have been nuclear materials here in the capital, perhaps in the form of -- an operational form. so we spent some time looking into that materials. we were not looking for dirty bombs, we were looking for their big brothers. but the d

i'm listed as a senior fellow from los alamos. that is my daytime job, but this is not necessarily a los alamos project. it's something i've been working on when i had a few minutes ever since 9/11. on that day the department of energy and department of defense were kind enough to send an airplane out to new mexico to get the doctor to come back here to pursue some projects that we had been looking into before 9/11 on unusual threats to the united states, one of which was a concern that there might have been nuclear materials here in the capitol perhaps in the form -- an operational form. so we spent some time looking into that. we were not looking for dirty bombs. we were looking for their big brothers, but the detection approaches are similar. and also quite difficult. as ms. hahn pointed out earlier, groups that smuggled depleted uranium into the country fairly frequently, actual enriched uranium is harder to find but not that much -- excuse me, is harder but not that much easier so we were trying to find nuclear materials. i m

it is where the people who built the first atomic bomb in los alamos, new mexico, and everything that we know about the atomic weaponry was borne in this time and place, and so it makes f explosive drama. >> how much of it is based on truth? >> some of it is, but the kashgs at the center of the show are fictional so it will give the writers ability to write some parallel s to parallels to the world we are living ioike hace fiction. >> i have never asked you this, but did you know anything about the making of the atom bomb. >> how long have you known me? >> 25 year s s. >> do you think that i know anything about the nuclear theoretical -- >> do you know now? >> yes, i know more, and when you are an actor, you were not learning about the physics, but worried about the school play. >> and what about, the big stone gap where you went to shoot -- >> yes, we shot it there in the town, and that is me kissing ashley judd. >> wow. >> and kiss ing ing ashley is as fantastic and i wanted to kiss her sister and her mom, too. they weren't on the set. >> wynonna. >> the judds are amazing. >> i don'

then used to speed up the creation of the bomb because along with the other three they were all in los alamosder oppenheimer's leadership feverishly working to beat the germans to the bomb because they knew they were on the trail of these powerful bombs at the time when the american scientists didn't because they had studied in berlin and were familiar with just how advanced german physics was at the time. we haven't talked about the others but robert, people have heard of him, the man that directed casablanca. nobody has ever could have pulled him into a group before. so it was very lucky for me. >> we are back with more coverage from the texas book festival near the state capitol grounds in austin. coming up in just a minute, steve talking about jackson land. he chronicles the removal of the cherokee tribes in the 1830s. you are watching booktv live on c-span2. >> good morning. good morning and welcome to austin texas. for the 20th anniversary of the greatest book festival festival in the country, the texas book festival. .. "jacksonland: president andrew jackson, cherokee chief john ross,

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los gatos, san mateo up to 76 degrees and 75 in san francisco. in napa look for a high of 83, oakland topping out at 77 and alamo up to 84 degrees. with mike. >> we have a live camera at the san raphael bridge. i didn't see anything going on in that shot itself. you see a smooth easy flow of traffic. there's a fire truck there and as reported at the toll plaza, that's why. looks like things are starting to ror. there's the east shore freeway, earlier crash at the bay bridge has cleared. we have your typical build along the east bay. highway 84 westbound picked up at lot of traffic. northbound routes through the south bay a slow down. we may have a crash near the 280 interchange or it may be 280 bogging things down on the feeder route. >>> that will do it for us right now. we'll be back in 25 minutes. >>> 7:30 now on a thursday morning. it's a beautiful morning here in new york. nice, warm temperatures again. those are coming to an end a little bit, but we have a great crowd celebrating the mets victory out on the plaza. hopefully, it'll be nice tomorrow, when carrie underwood is outside for her concert. >> can't wait for that. >>