The good servant

Janet Bailey's The Good Servant: Making Peace with the Bomb at Los Alamos tells, for the first time, the story of what the end of the Cold War means to the brilliant men and women of Los Alamos. Many in this select group of scientists believe that they, as much as anyone, have kept us all safe for the last half century, and that they, more than anyone, are the unsung heroes who won the Cold War. Bailey, who was there for the last underground test, who watched as the bomb assembly plant began disassembling the bombs that it had put together, follows these scientists as they begin to try to…