That seemed to me a rather disingenuous answer and to many people there was a little doubt what
General Groves really thought
about this, and I have to say that partly at least on this account, the Los Alamos scientists were intimidated, felt intimidated; and
in fact the people
in Chicago who felt much less intimidation of that sort, they were not
living on a military base, and they may have been
wondering what to do with themselves anyway at that point.