25 – Atomic Weapons Research and a Dead Man’s Slippers.

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Robert James Cowan’s travel manifest (below) shows he was sponsored to America in 1940/41* by Paul Leland Kirk, a key participant in the Manhattan Project who was working at the university of California at Berkeley. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work in the same University and on the same project came to fruition in 1945 and Cowan was given 10 months in their lab to get onboard with the American nuclear developments … yet here he is in 1949 trying on a random dead man’s old slippers at the same time Professor Cleland found what looked to be a suicide note in the unfortunate fellow’s fob pocket.

*J Sanders for the correction