Philip E. Meza is strategy consultant and researcher researcher whose books have been translated into multiple languages and used in universities around the world.

Following in the best tradition of famed California historian Kenneth Star, The San Francisco Nexus in World War II by Philip E. Meza takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic tour of the city by the Bay at a crucial moment in world history. From the pioneering work in splitting the atom on the campus of UC Berkeley to the jazz filled streets of the Fillmore district, Meza's work connects the threads of war, prejudice, science, and the personal dramas of figures ranging from J. Robert Oppenheimer to a young John F. Kennedy in a gripping historical narrative of the San Francisco Bay Area and its connection to a larger world at the dawn of the atomic age.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Crucible by the BayChapter 2: Bridging the New WorldChapter 3: Gold Comes to BerkeleyChapter 4: Making the Desert BloomChapter 5: A Hit on Treasure IslandChapter 6: Fission from the Old WorldChapter 7: Panic in CaliforniaChapter 8: Drumbeat to InternmentChapter 9: Developing the MeansChapter 10: Sketching the Atomic BombChapter 11: A National DisgraceChapter 12: Nearer to Free: Black Migration to San FranciscoChapter 13: The Baritone Who Broke the Jim Crow UnionChapter 14: Out of LeConte and Into Los AlamosChapter 15: The World Comes to San FranciscoChapter 16: Jack Kennedy Present at the CreationChapter 17: Trinity and AfterChapter 18: Gold in Peace, Iron in WarBibliographyAbout the Author

Philip E. Meza is strategy consultant and researcher researcher whose books have been translated into multiple languages and used in universities around the world.

Following in the best tradition of famed California historian Kenneth Star, The San Francisco Nexus in World War II by Philip E. Meza takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic tour of the city by the Bay at a crucial moment in world history. From the pioneering work in splitting the atom on the campus of UC Berkeley to the jazz filled streets of the Fillmore district, Meza's work connects the threads of war, prejudice, science, and the personal dramas of figures ranging from J. Robert Oppenheimer to a young John F. Kennedy in a gripping historical narrative of the San Francisco Bay Area and its connection to a larger world at the dawn of the atomic age.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Crucible by the BayChapter 2: Bridging the New WorldChapter 3: Gold Comes to BerkeleyChapter 4: Making the Desert BloomChapter 5: A Hit on Treasure IslandChapter 6: Fission from the Old WorldChapter 7: Panic in CaliforniaChapter 8: Drumbeat to InternmentChapter 9: Developing the MeansChapter 10: Sketching the Atomic BombChapter 11: A National DisgraceChapter 12: Nearer to Free: Black Migration to San FranciscoChapter 13: The Baritone Who Broke the Jim Crow UnionChapter 14: Out of LeConte and Into Los AlamosChapter 15: The World Comes to San FranciscoChapter 16: Jack Kennedy Present at the CreationChapter 17: Trinity and AfterChapter 18: Gold in Peace, Iron in WarBibliographyAbout the Author

Philip E. Meza is strategy consultant and researcher researcher whose books have been translated into multiple languages and used in universities around the world.

Following in the best tradition of famed California historian Kenneth Star, The San Francisco Nexus in World War II by Philip E. Meza takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic tour of the city by the Bay at a crucial moment in world history. From the pioneering work in splitting the atom on the campus of UC Berkeley to the jazz filled streets of the Fillmore district, Meza's work connects the threads of war, prejudice, science, and the personal dramas of figures ranging from J. Robert Oppenheimer to a young John F. Kennedy in a gripping historical narrative of the San Francisco Bay Area and its connection to a larger world at the dawn of the atomic age.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Crucible by the BayChapter 2: Bridging the New WorldChapter 3: Gold Comes to BerkeleyChapter 4: Making the Desert BloomChapter 5: A Hit on Treasure IslandChapter 6: Fission from the Old WorldChapter 7: Panic in CaliforniaChapter 8: Drumbeat to InternmentChapter 9: Developing the MeansChapter 10: Sketching the Atomic BombChapter 11: A National DisgraceChapter 12: Nearer to Free: Black Migration to San FranciscoChapter 13: The Baritone Who Broke the Jim Crow UnionChapter 14: Out of LeConte and Into Los AlamosChapter 15: The World Comes to San FranciscoChapter 16: Jack Kennedy Present at the CreationChapter 17: Trinity and AfterChapter 18: Gold in Peace, Iron in WarBibliographyAbout the Author